The Other Evolution Wars

By David Kaiser

Creationists have long battled with geologists and biologists, but they have only lately taken on physicists and cosmologists

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November-December 2007

Volume 95, Number 6
Page 518

DOI: 10.1511/2007.68.518

For nearly two centuries, talk of "evolution" has stirred controversy. Even before the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859)—and with greater ferocity since then—most debate over evolution has focused on geology and biology. Is our planet thousands or billions of years old? Did slow-acting, natural processes carve out stark features like the Grand Canyon, or were they produced by the biblical flood? Have humans evolved from less complicated animals?

Courtesy of the Creation Museum.

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