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Mark Twain

Does a really old universe show that human beings are not important?

July 4, 2011 by Randal

 Mark Twain thought so. In one of his finest rhetorical moments (in a career sparkling with them) he wrote: “Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: age of the universe, agnosticism, anthropology, apologetics, atheism, Mark Twain, skepticism, teleology, theism

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