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Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker questions evolution

The Trump-backed Republican candidate also doubted scientific intervention in human reproduction. He's the favorite in the primary to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in November.

Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker questioned the existence of evolution this week in an appearance at a Georgia church.

"At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not?" Walker said on Sunday at Sugar Hill Church in Sugar Hill, Ga., during an on-stage interview. Lead Pastor Chuck Allen responded, "Every

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