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First Public School
Massachusetts Puritans found the first “free grammar school” in North America explicitly to teach religion. -
Mirrors Manufactured
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Radioactive
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. -
Aluminum produced by electrolysis
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Lung cancer reported linked to smoking
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Orgins of Life
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. -
Supreme court bans prayer in school
The supreme court outlaws compulsory school prayer and bible reading in two landmark cases. -
venus probe launched by US
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A new veiw of humans and apes
Breakthrough in genetic science allow researchers to see striking similarities in the DNA blueprints to human and apes. -
Cosmonaut Komarov killed sovuz
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Creation science movement soreads nationwide
– 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. -
US Apollo and Soviet So juz link up in space
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Creationists lobby for "equal time" bill
Louisiana’s 1981 bill calling for “balanced treatment” of creation science in classrooms avoids references to religion. -
Internet virus jams over 6,000 military computers
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DNA codes
The genetic blueprint for living things, is like a made up of chemical letters. -
80 nations agree to stop producing ozon layer damaging CFC's by 2000 AD
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Templeton prize winner is Devout Chirstian and Scientist
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. -
Mad cow disease spreads in Britian and Europe