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To: VadeRetro
>> Heard him say, "I wouldn't worship a God who used evolution to create us."<<

Reminds me of the old story about the transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, who said, "I accept the universe!"
To which Thomas Carlyle quipped, "By Gad, she'd better!"
450 posted on 07/09/2003 8:05:56 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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Carlyle himself got quipped upon. His marriage was notably unhappy.

"Isn't it a pity that such a couple ever married?"

"No, no," said Tennyson, with a sort of smile under his rough beard. "It's much better that two people should be made unhappy than four."

Famous Affinities of History: the Carlyles.
462 posted on 07/09/2003 8:12:42 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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