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Once, many years ago, long before I was born, my father met this group of teenagers who belived in evolution. My father took off his watch and said, "see this watch? This is no ordinary watch. I found this inside a geode. You know what a geode is, right? It's a rock that looks ordindary on the outside, but when you break it open there's crystals. And I found this watch inside one!" He passed it around, and they looked at it in awe. When it got back to him, he continued, "it must have evolved in there! Look, it even has words on it. English words! It says TimeX." Then the kids started to catch on, "oh, you're just messing with us!"
"Why?" he asked sternly, "why do you think that? One cell in your body is far more complex than this watch is. You belive that you evolved from mud or whatever, and yet you can't belive that this watch evolved inside a geode." And as he put his watch back on, the teenagers managed to splutter, "th-that's different!"
Is it? Is there a difference? I don't think so. Do you?