Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms ...

According to surveys, most Americans believe that both the scientific theory of evolution and the biblical theory of creation should be taught in public schools. In the United States, citizens assume ...

He claims to have started 110 "creation clubs" in American schools. And he has a busy speaking schedule as he criss-crosses the country denying that evolutionary theory has any basis in truth.

Darwin's theory was seen as a direct challenge to the biblical story of creation by many fundamentalist Christians at the time. That contention came to a head in the 1920s when state lawmakers ...

Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. Broadly ...

Some Christians take the biblical accounts of creation literally ... and so they would have no room for scientific theories in their beliefs. Non-literalist Christians, also known as liberal ...

Non-literalist Christians may see biblical accounts as more mythical stories. They often agree with scientific theories such as the Big Bang, but many Christians believe that God caused these.

Enacted on March 21, 1925, the Butler Act forbade Tennessee educators “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has ...

Darwin’s theory was seen as a direct challenge to the biblical story of creation by many fundamentalist Christians at the time. That contention came to a head in the 1920s when state lawmakers ...