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So my close christian friend lends me a book, because I've always been bugging her and questioning christianity, and she told me it'd answer most of my questions.

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Here is another book you should read in order to get a balanced amount of input from opposing views, so that you may be more objective, and less biased:

[b]The Blind Watchmaker[b]: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design