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Discover the amusing clash between young Earth creationists and Sumerians, who invented glue well before creation claims.

Written byPhil Plait
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I love The Onion. It is that simple. I hope someone was eating a banana when they wrote that piece. Sam Harris put it pretty well: the timing of when young Earth creationists claim God created the Universe, "... is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue."

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