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\"\"It is difficult to work out the precise number of anti-evolutionists there are in the world, but an experiment to illustrate the sheer number of them has been proposed.<\/p>\n

If you took all the young-earth creationists and proponents of Intelligent Design, and laid them down head to foot along the equator, presumably some of them would drown, or get run over or eaten by lions.<\/p>\n

Sounds like an experiment which will produce useful results whatever its outcome, doesn\u2019t it? \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

[Shamelessly adapted from something Marc Cortez shared recently<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is difficult to work out the precise number of anti-evolutionists there are in the world, but an experiment to illustrate the sheer number of them has been proposed. 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