It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misun…

Richard Dawkins
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It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company
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