Actually, to the uninitiated, the conflict may seem less like a “battle,” and more like a non-issue from ages hence… Though the conflict may seem old-hat (and, depending on who one speaks to, it is), its vitality and endurance is a testament to its controversial past. It is a debate concerning the facts behind a topic so fundamental that it

The antievolution laws of the early century would serve to add a new dimension to the conflict. While students who could afford the expense of a post-secondary education became more acquainted with the forbidden knowledge, those who did not remained ignorant of the truth behind evolution other than the fact that it was “bad.” The line separating evolution and God had become more defined with evolutionists, atheists, and intellectuals on one side and theologians, fundamentalists, and the average American on the other. This further splitting of opinion could only lead to more conflict.

By the end of the 1920’s three states – Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas – had deemed the teaching of evolution a crime. Though it had been a major topic most of the decade, by 1928, Darwinism had begun to slip off the public radar. Not even four years after John Scopes had sparked-off a worldwide media circus had the evolution debate become viewed upon as tiresome by legislators. The situation remained unchanged until the 1960’s with the advent of the Space Race.

Perhaps the very indeterminacy of the sub-atomic world, and the seemingly blind luck that drives evolutionary processes are the key to free will. If the world really was run by purely materialistic laws right down to the individual atom, would there be any room for actual choice, or would a person’s whole life be pre-ordained to the logical paths of nature’s laws? Could it be that the fact that we are all products of evolution allows us to live our lives the way we please, to believe or not to believe, to love and to hate, to be flawed? If God had truly made us perfect in the beginning, would we still have our humanity?

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