# #188 – Human evolution is just like the evolution of English

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Podcast: [Recovering Evangelicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295)
Published: 2025-06-27T05:01:00+00:00
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The questions “who was the first person to speak English?” and “who was the first human?” are equally ridiculous and unanswerable, and for the same reasons. For many Christians, the many recent discoveries of our ancient hominid ancestors have raised uncomfortable questions. Some of them will cope with this by just trying to avoid any […]

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