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Massachusetts Puritans found the first “free grammar school” in North America explicitly to teach religion.
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the discorvy of radioactivity by physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel leads to stunning calculations of Earth’s age. New rock-dating techniques show that Earth is more than 4.3billion years old.
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Can Origins of life be glimpsed in a lab? – With electric currents to act as lighting and a soup of inorganic chemicals to simulate the conditions or ancient Earth.
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The supreme court outlaws compulsory school prayer and bible reading in two landmark cases.
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Breakthrough in genetic science allow researchers to see striking similarities in the DNA blueprints to human and apes.
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– As laws banning the teaching of evolution are overturned, anti-evolutionists begin to argue that creationism is a scientific approach to the study of the living world.
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Louisiana’s 1981 bill calling for “balanced treatment” of creation science in classrooms avoids references to religion.
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The genetic blueprint for living things, is like a made up of chemical letters.
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The Templeton Prize for progress in Religion is awarded to the Rev. Cannon Dr. Arthur Peacocke. A pioneer in the study of DNA and a vocal supporter of evolutionary science.
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