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It's Always Fun to Play the God Card

Mar 02, 2007

It's Friday. Who couldn't use a good laugh? The satirists at Avant News (their slogan: Tomorrow's News Today") deliver with a story on UC Davis researchers who map God's genome in 2010. In the article, they quote movie director James Cameron as saying, "The God genome we've derived from those specimens will pretty well blow any remaining skeptics out of the water. ... It's like nothing here on Earth, even though it's really, really similar."

 

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