“It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can’t reconcile for yourself.”

— Jerry Coyne

" The disingenuous Professor Ruse http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/the-disingenuous-professor-ruse/" July 29, 2012

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