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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at read more
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
 Said the little Eohippus,
 "I am going to be a horse,
  And on my middle fingernails
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 Said the little Eohippus,
 "I am going to be a horse,
  And on my middle fingernails
   To run my earthly course!
    . . . .
     I'm going to have a flowing tail!
      I'm going to have a mane!
       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high
        On the Psychozoic plain!" 
 Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;
 The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;
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 Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;
 The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;
  So men were developed from monkeys of course,
   Which nobody can deny. 
 Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and 
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the read more 
 Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and 
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe 
loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to 
make new things like them. 
 Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
 And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.  
 Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
 And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. 
 Or ever the knightly years were gone
 With the old world to the grave,
  I was a read more 
 Or ever the knightly years were gone
 With the old world to the grave,
  I was a king in Babylon
   And you were a Christian slave. 
 The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
 And the man said, "Am read more 
 The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
 And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"
  And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,
   And then I will let you a better." 
 Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
 He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.
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 Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
 He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.
   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
    We might, for aught that I can say,
     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.