Assume a 100-yard football field represents the 14-billion-year history of the universe with one end as the origin and the other end representing the present. The existence of human beings will extend from ____ to the present "goal line."
a. the 50-yard line
b. the 5-yard line
c. the one-yard line
d. the one-inch line
d
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