“So were our ancestors apes, pigs, or dogs? That's up to you and your imagination, if you believe in evolution.”

—  Ray Comfort

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)

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New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949

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