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=== Court cases ===
=== Court cases ===
== Timeline of the Creation/evolution controversy ==
* 1859 - Charles Darwin published ''The Origin of Species'' regarding the theory of evolution, after over 20 years of research and discovery. The theory's most radical tenant, "natural selection," attempted to replace the generally accepted idea of Created Kinds.
* 1860 - Liberal theologians published ''Essays and Reviews'' supporting Darwin. A debate of Darwin's theory was arranged at the Oxford Museum, with Darwin's bulldog Thomas Huxley among its defenders and Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford leading its critics.
* 1925 - The Scopes Trial tested the new Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach that man descended from animals in public schools. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100; prosecution lawyer William Jennings Bryan offered to pay it, but the decision was later set aside on a technicality after appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
* 1958 - The federally supported National Science Foundation started the [http://www.bscs.org/ Biological Sciences Curriculum Study] publishes textbooks which emphasizes evolution as an organizing principle.
* 1960 - ''The Genesis Flood'' by Henry Morris and John C. Whitcomb, Jr. reinvigorated the creationist movement.
* 1968 - A U.S. Supreme Court issues its Epperson v. Arkansas decision repealing laws that prohibited the teaching of evolution and requiring the teaching of a creationism on the grounds that it violated the the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
* 2004 - Intelligent Design researcher Stephen C. Meyer publishes a paper, ''The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories'' in the peer reviewed journal ''Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington''.
* 2005 - U.S. Representative Mark Souder's office issues a report concurring with the U.S. Office of Special Council's conclusion that Richard Sternberg was subjected to a hostile work environment at the Smithsonian Institution in retaliation for his role in publishing Stephen C. Meyer's paper. See [[Smithsonian-Sternberg affair]].
* 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI publishes ''Creation and Evolution'', where he writes "<nowiki>[It]</nowiki> is also true that the theory of evolution is not a complete, scientifically proven theory."<ref>Creation and Evolution, Pope Benedict XVI, 2007, Sankt Ulrich Publishing. See also [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070411/ap_on_re_eu/pope_evolution;_ylt=A0WTUejOaB1G9GUBBgKs0NUE]</ref>
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