In fact, changes like the elimination of limbo don't come from new information, but from secular currents in society that make church dogma seem insupportable or even barbaric. (Jerry Coyne)

In fact, changes like the elimination of limbo don't come from new information, but from secular currents in society that make church dogma seem insupportable or even barbaric.

Jerry Coyne

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