A furry glove and round spectacles rest on a wooden shoe form over mustard cloth.

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Bill Hicks

You ever noticed how people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker mocks believers in creationism by describing them through exaggerated physical traits labelled unevolved. The insult borrows the language of evolution to attack people associated here with a contrary belief. Its repeated question invites agreement, while the caricature supplies the deliberately confrontational comic effect.

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