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new, buttocky tongue. _The Devil tried to silence me but the good Lord and American surgical techniques knew better_. These gaps were the creationist's main selling--point: if natural selection was the truth, wherestumbling, hit-andmiss manner first envisaged, but in great, radical leaps. The historynot the bumbling progress -- the very English middleclass progress -- Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution were all the random mutations that got deselected? Where were the monster--children, the deformed babies of evolution? The fossils were silent. No three-legged horses there. _No point arguing with these geezers_, the cabbie said. _I don't hold with God myself_. No point, one small part of Chamcha's consciousness agreed. No point suggesting that "the fossil record" wasn't some sort of perfect filing cabinet. And evolution theory had come a long way since Darwin. It was now being argued that major changes in species happened not in the
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