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Bishop Usher
The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland). -
Spontaneous Generation
According to this theory, pieces of candy and sweet things wrapped in rags and left in a dark corner, for example, were thus thought to produce ants, because after several weeks there were ants in the rags. -
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus if often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system of ranking, naming and classifying organisms is still in use today but it has changed a little bit through time. His ideas have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those opposed to the philosophical and theological roots of his work. -
Comte de Buffon
Comte de Buffon said that living things change through time. He believed that earth must be older than 6000 years and is probably at least 75,000 years old. He also suggested that humans and apes are related. -
Natural Theology
It specifies that not only God's attributes are manifested in the intricate forms of nature. -
Lamarck
He proposed that living things evolve to become more complex through time. -
Cuvier
Cuvier stated that catastrophes wiped out life in the distant past and that modern creatures are too complex to have evolve naturally. -
Lyell
He argued that slow-moving, gradual processes explain Earth's geology. -
Beagle Voyage
It was a Charles Darwin's voyage. He got commited to a life in science, discovering nature's laws. -
Neanderthal
There was a fossil skull founded in Germany's Neander Valley. This skull was like a human's, but still it is different. -
Wallace
Wallace had a theory of how species evolve and stuck upon the theory of natural selection. -
Origin of Species
It is the title from Darwin's book. It offered a wealth of evidence and proposes a coherent theory for evolution. -
Ape debate
There was a debate in which critics attack Darwin's theory after publishing his book. -
Evolution Accepted
Few years after The Origin of Species was published, evolution is mainstream science. Many magazines, newspapers and even religious publications promoted evolution. -
Decedent of man
Darwin created his new book called" Decedent of man" in which stresses the importance of sexual selection in evolution. -
Horse Fossils
Thomas Huxley visited fossil hunter Othniel Charles Marsh who discovered stunning fossils of ancient horses. -
Darwin´s burial
Darwin died, and his body was laid in a place of honor near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. -
Radioactivity
Antoine Henri Becquerel dicovered radioactivity which leads to calculations of Earth's age. -
Piltdown man
A fossil skul called Piltdown man was founded to prove evolution and years later scientist revealed it was fake. -
First anti evolution bill
William Jennings Bryan, 6 Southern and border states consider anti-evolution proposals. -
Man like ape
Raymond Dart announced the it was founded a man like ape in a limestone quarry at South Africa. -
Textbook
Because of the loss of sales in the South and West, publishers removed references to evolution from biology textbooks. -
Tennessee bill
Tennessee legislature passes a bill in which prohibits the teaching of evolution in publis schools. -
Anti-evolution bills
35 anti-evolution bills were proposed in 20 states and 3 others passed laws. -
Neo Darwinism
Scientists discovered that genetic mutations cause changes in the traits of organisms, and that inherited changes are spreaded throughout a population. -
Evolution Shunned
Scientists estimated that less than half of all high school science teachers teach about evolution. -
Supreme court
he supreme court stated that public schools should have evolution teachings. -
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII considered evolution as a hypothesis. -
Origins of life
Stanley Miller produced amino acids which indicate that the first life on Earth may have arisen through natural processes. -
DNA
Science knows that genes determine the traits of living things and that they are passed through generations. -
Human and Apes
Science researchers notice similarities between humans and apes blueprints. -
Supreme Court on Evolution
The supreme court put end to all laws in which prohibit the teaching of evolution. -
DNA Codes
New technology now makes DNA sequencing relatively easy and inexpensive. -
Textbook disclaimer
Textbook who teach about evolution should especify that evolution is just a theory not a fact. -
Pope John Paul II
He opened the door for Catholic acceptance of evolution. -
Science Standards
19 US states do a weak reprehensible job of handing evolution in their science standards. Scientists and science teachers keep in mind that a large majority of Americans believe in God's faith. -
Human Genome
With the first draft of the sequence of human genome complete, scientist see how related the humans are to other life in Earth. -
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