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“It’s creating a big weapon against Christians that’s killing our faith…when children go to museums they’ll start believing we evolved from these apes.”

Bishop Boniface Adoyo of Kenya, who is leading a campaign to have human fossil remains removed from the National Museum of Kenya (The Observer, London, 10 September)

“We live in a nuclear-powered universe. We’re the oddballs by getting energy from burning carbon.”

James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis, backing his argument that nuclear power will solve the world’s energy problems (The New York Times, 12 September)

“Babies are squeezed very hard during labour. It may be something like wringing out a cloth.”…

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