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is a process brought into being through a divine agency and that creation was not a single event but is instead the long-term process of evolution. The book opposed religious creationism and was described as similar to the
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Ditfurth was born in Berlin on 15 October 1921, into the family of the classical philologist Hans-Otto von
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Gerhard Friedrich Ernst von Ditfurth was a German physician, academic, and scientific journalist, best known as a television presenter and as a writer of popular books on science.
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