The American Creationist Movement Has Entirely Bypassed

America's Got A Darwin Problem - And It Matters. According To A 2009 Gallup Poll Taken On The 200th Anniversary Of Charles Darwin's Birth, Fewer Than 40% Of Americans Are Willing To Say That They 'believe In Evolution.'

I Am Always Struck By The Fact That Human Awareness Of Our Place In Nature, Like So Much Of Modern Science, Began With The Industrial Revolution.

The Anti-evolution Forces Have Been Searching For A New Strategy That Would Accomplish The Same End. That Purpose Is, If Not To Get Evolution Out Of The Schools Altogether, Then At Least Undermine It As Much As Possible In The Minds Of Students.

Evolution Isn't Just A Take-it-or-leave-it Story About Where We Came From. It's An Epic At The Centre Of Life Itself. It Tells Us We Are Part Of Nature In Every Respect.

For Much Of History It Was Possible To Believe That The Great Diversity Of Life On Earth Was A Fixed Creation, That The Living World Had Never Changed. But When The First Stirrings Of Industry Demanded That Fuel Be Dug From The Earth And Hillsides Be Leveled For Roads And Railways, The Earths True Past Was Dug Up In Abundance.