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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It wasn't wrong that they're done with evolution, but it doesn't work as an analogy because ginkgos and magnolias still exist. Perhaps they were thinking of the horseshoe crab, which has changed relatively little in 445 million years.