... trial in 1925, Christian fundamentalists rejected all evolutionary ideas and accepted a literal interpretation of Genesis. In the 1980s the "creation science" movement put pressure on state legislatures and local school boards to require biology teachers to give a "balanced treatment" of evolutionary theory and "abrupt appearance theory" as two alternative scientific hypotheses, claiming that the latter could be defended ... (groups of similar species with a common body plan) appeared in a relatively short interval, though only 30 of these remain today. Thereafter few new phyla appeared...

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