"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."

George G. Simpson, American Paleontologist

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"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."

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"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."

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