Introduction

The impact of Darwin's theory, is one that effected societies thinking at the time, all the way up to present day.

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Darwin's theory of evolution threatened the ideas and beliefs of Christian orthodoxy.

Introduction

Developed by Charles Darwin after his five-year voyage on the Beagle. From these studies, he published

The Theory of Evolution

The Origin of Species and The Decent of Man

Scopes and More

In 1925, the Butler Act was passed in Dayton, Tennessee which outlawed the teaching of evolution in public school. This led to the Scopes trial in which Evolutionists went against Fundamentalists to test the constitutionality of the law and to see if evolution should be taught in public schools.

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When Russia launched Sputnik, scientists were placed in charge of public school curriculum and they initiated the teaching of evolution.

Today evolution is taught in public schools and there is still the ongoing battle between evolution and creation.