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Comment author: pangloss 21 April 2009 06:31:36AM *  0 points [-]

You say: <i>You're right; yet no one ever sees it this way. Before Darwin, no one said, "This idea that an intelligent creator existed first doesn't simplify things."</i>

I may have to look up where before Darwin it gets argued, but I am pretty sure people challenged that before Darwin.