Even ordinary evolution by selection of the fittest can be extraordinarily fast. Experimenters with fruit flies claim to have shown speciation to occur in only 12 generations.
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In science and logic, if any link in a proof is wrong or even uncertain then the proof is invalid. In law, criminal cases, where the outcome is punishment, possibly terminal, have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. They are certainly proved within a reasonable doubt—a slight leeway. Civil cases are decided on the balance of the evidence. Whoever has the best evidence wins the case. They are not proved one way or the other at all. Christians like this criterion because it is the least rigorous, and they can persuade the gullible that the “balance of evidence” simply means the most. Evidence still has to be relevant. There might be two billion Christians in the world, but that is not relevant to the truth or otherwise of their beliefs. If they were led to think false beliefs were true, then they are all wrong, all two billion.
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The custom of bringing evergreens into the home for the midwinter festival dates back before the dawn of known history. In Britain, in mediaeval times, there were the 12 days of holiday for Christmas with holly, ivy, bay, rosemary and mistletoe… 
…Belief Hellenization Christmas inquisition Judaism Jesus Essene Christianity… It shows that the fiction of the virgin birth evolved as all things do.…
