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“Cain kills Abel,” Straw Hair corrected

“You sure?” He frowned, thinking about it Then he shook it off “Look, whatever One of them dies”

“Abel dies Cain kills him”

“You’re sure?”

Straw Hair nodded

“Okay, that leaves us with Cain So the question is, who did Cain reproduce with? Ion in years So how did mankind continue to survive?”

Mustache stopped, as if waiting for applause Marianne rolled her eyes

“Do you see the dilemma?”

“Maybe Eve had another kid A girl”

“So he had sex with his sister?” Mustache asked

“Sure In those days, everyone did everyone, didn’t they? I mean, Adam and Eve were the first There had to be some early incest”

“No,” Mustache said

“No?”

“The Bible forbids incest The answer lies in science That’s what I ion can indeed coexist It’s all about Darwin’s theory of evolution”

Straw Hair looked genuinely interested “How?”

“Think about it According to all those Darwinists, what did we descend from?”

“Primates”

“Right, monkeys or apes or whatever So anyway Cain is cast out and he’s wandering around this glorious planet on his own You with me?”

Mustache tapped Marianne’s arlike in his direction Lose the pornhere

Marianne shrugged “With you”

“Great” He sht?”

Straw Hair wanted back in: “Right”

“With norht?”

“Right”

“So he’s walking around And he’s feeling his oats His natural urges And one day, while walking through a forest”—another smile, another pet of the orilla Or orangutan”

Marianne stared at hiht?”

“No Think about it Cain spots so froht? He juht his hands together in a silent clap in case she didn’t know “And then the prinant”

Straw Hair said, “That’s gross”

Marianne started to turn back to her drink, but the ain

“Don’t you see how that makes sense? The primate has a baby Half ape, half man It’s apelike, but slowly, over time, the dominance of mankind comes to the forefront See? Voilà! Evolution and creationism made one”

He sold star

“Let ainst incest, but He’s into bestiality?”

The , there-there pat on the shoulder