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S1E2 Freakshow: Tragic Tales of Evolutionary Exploitation
Season 1, Episode 2
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30-Sep-2022
Portrayals as ‘missing links’ took a fearful toll on many unfortunate people involved in the human Freak Show industry. As evolutionary ideas grew among the scientific community, naturalistic ideas of man’s origins were disseminated among the general public through such exhibits. Once popularized, they were then used by scientists as observable examples of human evolution. This created an ideological cycle of cross-promotion that bolstered belief in more naturalistic ideas of man’s origins among all strata of society—in clear contradiction of the plain reading of God’s Word.
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