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== History ==
 
== History ==
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Until [[Charles Darwin]] popularised the idea of [[Theory of evolution|evolution]] in the middle of the 19th century, most people including the vast majority of scientists were creationists.
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Until [[Charles Darwin]] popularised<ref>Darwin didn't invent the idea.  Similar ideas had been around for a long time, and even Charles Darwin's uncle Erasmus was an evolutionist.</ref> the idea of [[Theory of evolution|evolution]] in the middle of the 19th century, most people including the vast majority of scientists were creationists.
 
Over the next 50 to 100 years, however, evolution came to be the ruling paradigm in the biological sciences in particular, and science in general.
 
Over the next 50 to 100 years, however, evolution came to be the ruling paradigm in the biological sciences in particular, and science in general.
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The movie ''Expelled'' by [[Ben Stein]] and due for release in February 2008 is being promoted as exposing the suppression of alternatives to evolution.
 
The movie ''Expelled'' by [[Ben Stein]] and due for release in February 2008 is being promoted as exposing the suppression of alternatives to evolution.
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== Ideology ==
 
== Ideology ==
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