“你把自己从各种权威下解脱出来，包括神，却发现自己置身于一个进化中的系统，”他说。

"You free yourself from authorities, including the gods, but you find yourself part of an evolving system," he says.

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如果这不是神的旨意，那么可能是一次简单的进化，这个病毒出现并将人类暴露在了其毒手下。

If it wasn't an act of god, it could have been simple evolution. The virus could have occurred natural and people began to become exposed.

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想象一下，当一个人听说科学家发现了一种确定是我们进化起源的古人类——这个深度挑战她原本的神创论信仰的新发现时，她会作何反应。

Consider a person who has heard about a scientific discovery that deeply challenges her belief in divine creation-a new hominid, say, that confirms our evolutionary origins.

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He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

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Well, so far we've had two models that have been thrown out to you: From polytheism's worship of many gods there's a natural evolution to henotheism's elevation of one god to a supreme position.

目前，我已经给你们提出了两种模型：,从崇拜众多神灵的多神论,自然进化到一神论,唯一的至高无上的神。

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