1925- Scopes Goes Bananas

You bet he did. And in front of his students as well. Not the best of plans. A biology teacher decided to teach his high school students about evolution . This happened in a small creationist town in Tennessee, and this daring teacher's actions resulted in trial. The continuous trial started a feud between Christianity and science.

2002....The End of Evolution?

A newly discovered fossil skull in Chad has confounded the proponents of the theory of evolution. It is thought to be:

4 million years + 3 million years = _____________ answer isn't over here...

7 million.........you actually did it!!! Anyway...the scientiists to discover it are saying it is the most important discovery in the search of the origins of mankind since "ape-man" was found in Africa.

It has hugely affected people who study the evolution theory for it puts to rest any ideas that there may be a "missing" link between man and chimpanzees, they say. The scientist who led the team that found the Toumai skull said the discovery would have the impact of a small nuclear bomb when it was found.

17th Century

Ever stop to think when fossils weren't just bones buried under a bunch of sediment and such? When people actually started using their brains?! The 17th century, Nicholas Steno decided have an old-timey science experiment: disecting a shark. What did he find?! Squirrels! No. He was struck by how much the teeth resembled "tongue stones", which were like voo-doo triangular rocks from ancient times. Being daring, Steno declared the tongue stones indeed came the mouth of once-living (now dead obviously) sharks. He just didn't have enough brains to figure out how they had hardened to rock and turned to stone.

Steno said that fossils were snapshots of life at different moments in Earth's history and that rocks layered slowly over time.

1974

Lucy. An Australopithecus afarensis found at the Afar Locality (AL) 288, an archaeological site in Ethiopia. The remains, nearly 3.18 years old alone. But this partial hominin remain is not alone. Many more A. afarensis have been found in the Hadar region. To date, over 360 "Lucies" have been uncovered, and becoming known as the "the First Family".

Her discovery was such a shock, and with crucial evidence that "Lucy" walked in an upright position, scientists began to think she was the "missing link"....