#10 The Evolution of a Creationist: Ella Al-Shamahi and the Ball of Lightning

"I didn't believe it... I was going to evolution class to destroy it from the inside"

Ella Al-Shamahi is a National Geographic Explorer, palaeoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, author and stand-up comic. An expert in her field, Ella specialises in Neanderthals and caves, working almost exclusively in places it is hard to get insurance, such as Iraq, Yemen and Nagorno-Karabakh.

How did a resolute creationist become a renowned evolutionary biologist?

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