Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 107
“Tiny, nonfunctional wings, a dangerous appendix, eyes that can’t see, and silly ear muscles simply don’t make sense if you think that species were specially created.”
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 64
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