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Hemant Mehta shared the above cartoon. It\u00a0is always good to ask about things\u00a0a story doesn\u2019t mention, but which perhaps it should. Gavin Rumney shared an older cartoon that explores a similar idea:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":31777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42],"tags":[782,1281,1625,2845,3840,8171],"class_list":["post-31659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genesis-bible","category-humor","tag-ark","tag-boats","tag-cartoon","tag-dragons","tag-genesis-bible","tag-noah"],"yoast_head":"\n
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