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Today is Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:33 pm (U.S. central time).

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Nearly half of all Americans believe that evolution is not well supported by evidence and is not widely accepted within the scientific community (despite numerous expressions of scientific support from Nobel Prize winners, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United States [...]

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