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Senator Asks For Proof Of Evolution, Discovers He Doesn’t Actually Understand What It Is

Wikipedia defines evolution as “the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.” Creationism, on the other hand, is defined as “the religious belief that life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being.” Key difference: Evolution is part of science. Creationism is part of belief systems.In Louisiana, a…

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For those playing the home game, the senator had evolution backwards. His understanding of evolution is that all creatures eventually turn into humans, whereas in reality, it’s that one common ancestor split off in a billion directions, with humans becoming just one arbitrary direction of billions of potential outcomes.
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