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From God of Evolution<\/a>. Is it safe to assume that everyone will understand that this question is a parody of the young-earth creationist question \u201cIf we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?\u201d and that it alludes to Genesis 2?<\/p>\n

I previously made something similar and shared it here \u2013 \u201cWhy is there still dust?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"