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100 years after Scopes, creationists won’t let go

The death knell for creationism was sounded in the 19th century, with the recognition of an ancient earth and Darwin’s Origin of Species showing that all life on earth is related by descent. A particular obsession of creationists is the idea that humans and apes descended from a common ancestor. With the advent of protein […]

And they vote

I grew up in the state that hosted the Scopes trial. 100 years later, 25% of my fellow citizens believe in creationism. “Trollinger and Trollinger note that today approximately one-quarter of all Americans are young-earth creationists and reject much of modern biology and modern geology, not to mention modern cosmology. Answers in Genesis, which is […]