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<\/a><\/div>\nWhether it is the Christian message or the advances of science, there is always good news and bad news that can be shared. Among science-denying religious people, there is a lot focus on what they consider the \u201cbad news\u201d in evolutionary biology. If you were an evangelist for mainstream science, what would you share as the good news about evolutionary biology since Darwin\u2019s time?<\/p>\n
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Whether it is the Christian message or the advances of science, there is always good news and bad news that can be shared. Among science-denying religious people, there is a lot focus on what they consider the \u201cbad news\u201d in evolutionary biology. If you were an evangelist for mainstream science, what would you share as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,42],"tags":[1625,2039,2454,5630],"class_list":["post-23596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution-science","category-humor","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-darwin","tag-jehovahs-witnesses"],"yoast_head":"\n
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