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theadvancedapes · 4375 days ago · link · · parent · post: Underselling Science

Definitely not. I state that in the article:

I know that Dawkins or Jillette wouldn’t have been given enough time to tell that entire story, but some version of explaining what science has learned about our origins would be far better than saying that scientists are “working on it” or “I don’t know.”

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theadvancedapes · 4375 days ago · link ·

But even if I did manage to give that whole speech... O'Reilly would get me by saying that I have yet to explain the tides...

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