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“Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.”

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Ian Tattersall is a renowned paleoanthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Born on October 5, 1945, he is known for his significant contributions to the study of human origins and evolution. more

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