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42 Popular Culture Review independently of God—and its evolution, over time, into male and female human beings with an inherent essence called a soul that, somehow, survives the physical limitations of the material body. The combination of these developments, which occurred during the course of millions upon millions of years, horrified Memnoch, mostly because of the suffering men and women—