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Feb 20Liked by Jim Stump

Well, you know my connection to baseball cards, being the editor of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly more than one generation (+25 yrs) ago, or exactly one baseball card thick on your scale. Haha.

Good stuff. The fuzzy line between species reminds me of the "fallacy of the beard." How many individual hairs does it take to constitute a beard?

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Great way to visualize how time and evolution work. Of course, if you hold to a historical Adam consistent with the geneologies in the OT, he would only be an inch or so down the stack from Abraham. Not sure if that helps, as it only adds new questions to ponder.

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Nice image! Does your book answer the question when the first human was endowed with a soul? Asking the same question a bit differently, if we through CRISPR or some other DNA manipulation, cloned a Neanderthal, would it have a soul?

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