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  • November 23rd, 2009 12:17 am ET its funny how the religious nowadays use words like design and intelligent. i miss the good old days when they use to debate us with concepts like the burning bush or jonah's great fish.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • Captain Clark wrote that he "thanked providence for driving the whale to us; and think him much more kind to us than he was to Jonah having sent this monster to be swallowed by us, in sted of swallowing of us as jonah's did."

    Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1894

  • Stock is I prise it highly; and thank providence for directing the whale to us; and think him much more kind to us than he was to jonah, having Sent this monster to be Swallowed by us in Sted of Swallowing of us as jonah's did.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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