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“Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity.”

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“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”

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Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

Source: Why God Doesn't Exist

“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.”

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Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

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Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

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“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that now make a living telling you what diseases you inherited from an extinct Arctic ape.”

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Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

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“When raping and pillaging is the preferred scheme for mating, speed is of the essence. So, the sturdy Neanderthals did not survive.”

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Author:Debra Gavant

“Help me to understand other people’s positions, Lord, even when I don’t share them. At the same time, grant me the strength to not ignore wrongdoing simply because it is committed by someone who is well intentioned. Let me be compassionate while remaining true to my convictions. Amen.”

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Book:Omphalos

Source: Omphalos

“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.”

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Book:Extinction

Source: Extinction

“On a whim, I told Mom once about seeing the world as a series of grays, and she told me I was depressed. This didn’t feel like that. This emptiness was different.”

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Book:What I Did

Source: What I Did

“Men are not human. About a couple of years, the evolution will be released from these pathetic figures.”

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“Trauma tried to tell me that I was not human and that I should be excluded from humanity.”

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Author:Carolyn Spring