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Puritans from Massachusetts become founders of the first public school that teaches religion
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Carl von Hinne tries to classify all life on earth by separating organisms into kingdoms, classes, orders, genera, and species
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Ben Franklin invents the lightning conductor
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United States declares independence from Great Britain
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William Paley writes about god’s existence and how he contributed to the creation of life, as some organs, such as the eye, are so complex
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Official end of the Roman Empire
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Darwin is born and within a few years decides to shape his life off of his interest in nature
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French naturalist George Cuvier attempts to explain the extraordinary fossils of extinct creatures found in many mines and canals
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Charles Darwin sets off at sea on his voyage that would bring him around the world. Even though his intent was to spend his life in a clergy, he ultimately brings back fossils that end up being the basis of evolution
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Lord Kelvin (Wililam Thomson) estimates that the earth is about 100 million years old. He later widens his estimate to 20 to 400 million years.
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Charles Darwin writes, On the Origin of Species, which turns out to be one of the most influential books about the theory of evolution. In the book he explains natural selection
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Gregor Mendel publishes a book about heredity and genes
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Soon after Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, people begin to accept evolution. Magazines, newspapers, and religious “publications” accept it.
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President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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Charles Hodge calles Darwin’s idea atheism, as it goes against the theory that god created everything
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Darwin’s body is buried in Westminster Abbey near Sir Isaac Newton’s grave
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Wright brothers make first flight
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World War 1 starts
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A fundamentalist movement enforces the practice of the bible in public schools
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Tennessee legislature passes a bill that makes it so public schools can’t teach theories that go against the bible
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Teddy Roosevelt introduces the New Deal
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Germany invades Poland which starts World War 2
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Teaching of evolution is at a very low point, as textbooks are censored by commercial concerns and anti-evolutionist regulations
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Ghandi is assassinated in India
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Pope Pius XII explores the theory of evolution and considers it “worthy of an in-depth study.”
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Arguments are constructed that argue to theory of evolution as there is “irrieducible complexity” on earth that cannot be explained
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In a Columbine high school, students “lose their moral bearings.” Tom DeLay, Congressmen of Texas, believes that the “moral decline” is due to the teaching of evolution. “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup.”
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Kansas schools drop evolution as a science topic in their schools
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Rev. Cannon Dr. Arthur Peacocke receives the Templeton prize. Peacocke acts as the median between religion and science
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