Page 57 - Uncle Darwin, We Haven't Changed

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But first, you should try to imagine how long 125
million years is. To understand how long this is, think
of your 80 years old grandfather. He’s a lot older
than you, and even much older than your mother and

father, isn’t he? But we’re not talking here about 80
years; we’re not even talking about 80 thousand
years. We are talking about 125 million years. Now,
perhaps, you can understand better how long we
have been fossils.
Boys and girls, Darwin has told many lies to peo-
ple. For example, he said that living creatures were

at first primitive and evolved from one another
after some time. The strange thing is that so

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