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23 Feb
QOTD - God and beetles, 2/23/99

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
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From: Jean Tenenbaum <jeant@olympus.net>

There is a class called "Introduction to Beetles" that will be given in
August.  It's listed in the 1999-2000 catalog of the North Cascades
Institute.  The description mentions that beetles are the most numerous
animals on earth.

But you probably don't have to know that when you read, at the bottom of
page 23--

When J. B. S. Haldane, remowned British physiologist and philosopher, was
asked what his studies of nature revealed about God, he replied, "An
inordinate fondness for beetles."
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