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Teaching evolution in schools is a highly debated issue between science and religion. In Kansas, the State Board of Education has decided to de-emphasize evolution in favor of the creation story. Throughout the science community, it is believed that evolution should be taught in school because of ...
The Scopes Trial The Scopes Trial, often referred to as the "Monkey Trial", took place in the year 1925. It was a case where the state of Tennessee charged John Thomas Scopes with teaching his high school students the theory of evolution instead of the theory of Genesis. This was...
Many things have been said about life, and many explanations have been made to try and explain this \"life\" and how it came into existence. About 150 years ago a man by the name of Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in an attempt to explain the world from a scientific perspective. Cha...
The 1920's were times of cultural revolution. The times were changing in many different ways. Whenever the times change, there is a clash between the "old" and the "new" generations. The 1920's were no exception.In Dayton, Tennessee, 1925, a high school biology teacher was arrested. He was arres...
Dr. H. Allen Orr is a Professor of Biology at University of Rochester who studies the genetic changes underlying evolution. He is particularly interested in the genetics of speciation and the genetics of adaptation. Allen Orr wrote an article criticizing Michael Behe saying ¡°The latest attack on ...
Recently, we have all seen the controversy over whether or not we should attempt to clone. If you haven\'t heard: A group of scientists in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep cloned from embryonic cells, presaging Dolly. Dolly\'s was the birth heard round the world. The first mammal ever cloned...
Scopes Monkey TrialDuring the summer of 1925 in a small town in Daytona Tennessee an event occurred that captured the attention of the American people. A man named John Scopes was being prosecuted by the state of Tennessee. He was a schoolteacher who was on trial for teaching evolution to children...
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and Go...
(A letter from me to crystalfalcon who is a pagan with a scientific mindset. I know witnessing is't about winning arguements. But I consider evolution to be an insult to every human that was ever brout up into exhistance. Me and crystalfalcon have had an on-going dialogue for two weeks now. The whol...
Adam Dill OriginsCreationism vs. Evolution, the argument disputed by more scientists, more paleontologists and more everyday people than probably any other argument since the dawn of man. Who is right? Do the theories and evidence of evolutionists have the right answers or do the faith and facts of ...
Adam Dill OriginsCreationism vs. Evolution, the argument disputed by more scientists, more paleontologists and more everyday people than probably any other argument since the dawn of man. Who is right? Do the theories and evidence of evolutionists have the right answers or do the faith and facts of ...