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Calculated that the creation between heaven and earth took place in 4004 B.C.
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New instruments of magnificaiton are fueling scientific reaserch. Thanks to that they found that Spontaneous Generation does not exist.
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Linnaeu attempts to clasify all life in earth into kingdoms, classes, orders, genera, and species.
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Spectulates that living creatures evolve according to natural laws.
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William Paley´s Natural Theology holds that no only God´s existence but also his attributes are manifest in intricate forms of nature.
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Lamarck proposes that living things evolve to become more complex through time.
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Argues that a series of catastrophes, great floods and earthquakes, wiped out certain life in the distant past.
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Charles Lyell helps further the idea that earth span vast of ages by arguing that slow moving, gradual processes explain Earth´s geology.
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Charles Darwin begins his voyage. At the end of the trip Darwin is changed man.
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The unearthing of a fossil´s skull in Germany Neander Valley fuels a debate in weather all humans are direct decendents of Adam and Eve
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Alfred Russel Wallace writed Darwin from Malaysia seeking his advice.
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While far from the first work on evolution, Darwin´s book was influentional.
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On the Origin of Species does not adress human evolution, criticts asume that he meant no exception, and he is attcacked by critics.
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Even though some scientist continue to reject the idea, evolution is accepted only a few years after Origin of Species is published.
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Unlike in Origin of Species, Darwin now unbadishly takes on human evolution.
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Marsh discovered stunning fossils of acient fossils. Huxley and Marsh piece together the story of the evolution of a modern horse from a four-toad ancestor.
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Darwin´s body is laid to rest in peace.
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The discovery of radioctivity leads to stunning calculations of Earh´s age.
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Both critics and promonents of evolution eagerly await the discovery of a "missing link" between humans and other primates.
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Spoured by William Jenning Bryan and a growing grassroot movement, 6 southern and border states consider anti-evolution proposals.
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Raymont Tarc anounces that they found an ape that looked man-like.
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Fearing loss of sales, publishers remove references of evolution in biology textbooks.
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By an overwhelming majority of votes the Tennessee legislature passes a bill that makes it misdemeanor to teach about evolution because they said it was againts god.
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In the years following the Scopes trials, some 35 new anti-evolution bills are proposed in 20 states.
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Neo-Darwinism is an updated theory of evolution combinig modern genetics with Darwin´s 19th centuary theorie.
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Less than half of high school science teachers taught anything about evolution.
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The Supreme Court rules that niether a state nor the federal government " can pass laws wich aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion than another."
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In his paper on human organisms he considers evolution a serious hypothesis worthhy of more studying.
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To unlock what genes are an how thy work they hd to discover te double helix structure of DNA.
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A young graduate student producs amino-acids key chemical building blocks of life, indicating tht the first life of Earth may have arisen through natral processes.
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Breakthroughs in genetic science allow reaserches to see striking similaritesbetween apes and
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Supreme Court makes law against evolution.
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Ecolutionary scientist now see, at a molecular, how the DNA of various organisms has changed through time has evolved.
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The school board passes a requirement that whenever evolution is thaught the students must be informed that the material is not intended to influence or disuade the Biblbical version of creation.
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By distinguishing between body and spirit, his predecer Pius XII opened the door for catholic acceptence of evolution.
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A nationwide study sponsored the Foudham Foudation laments that 19 U.S. states "a weak to reprehensible job of handaling evolution in their science standars.
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With the first draft of sequence of the genome complete, scientists see more than before how intematly related the human specie is to other life on Earth.
