“We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.”

—  Henry Fairfield Osborn

As quoted in The Evolution Deceit : The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism (2001) by Hârun Yahya, p. 84

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American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist 1857–1935

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