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Their point is that evolution doesn't explain the origin of Earth, a planet, at all. While the Bible's explanation may be fiction, it does offer an explanation for the origin of Earth, and is therefor the better explanation by virtue of providing an explanation.

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Ah, absolutely true. Evolution doesn't explain the origin of the cosmos. My lazy brain fell right into the trap.

No, no, it does, you see. Everything evolves! Everything from the lowliest quark to the grandest Londoner desires to become greater than it is, to achieve the pinnacle of being, to immanentize the eschaton, by becoming a phony-doctor of computer science from Texas.

Yeah, with the way it's phrased, it's a trick question.

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