Floridians See the Light?


	Floridians See the Light?

AtlLiberal

12-22-2007 10:24 AM

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religion, science, creationism, evolution

AtlLiberal says:

I just clipped another article concerning this topic and then came across this article. Well, that was a short lived controversy. It seems the Florida creationists sipped from the reality cup just in time. Good news.

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