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"There is only one exception to this, and that is water. Only water does not obey this rule."

There are still some Christians who attempt these "checkmate, atheists" arguments, but I feel there are fewer around now than when I was a kid. Lucky noone told Erbakan that plutonium is also a miracle substance blessed by God with a negative coefficient of thermal expansion, or his chapters on defense might have been even scarier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Materials_that_expand_upon_freezing

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Yeah, another reader has been writing to me about strong parallels in the Christian creationist community. I'm going to reflect on this in part II. As readers know, I'm excited by anything that closes the (asymptotically small) distance between right wing movements in Turkey and the West!

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