“People say, "Well, don't plants die? If Adam ate the apple, didn't it die?" Oh, you'd better first check out to see if plants are truly alive. They have no blood, no breath. They wither. They fade.”

—  Kent Hovind

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden

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American young Earth creationist 1953

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