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1785
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James Hutton
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- British Geologist
- Proposes self-maintaining infinite cycle of deposition and erosion to form the earth's surface
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1832 – 1833
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William Whewell
Charles Lyell
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- Publish Principles of Geology
- Principle of Uniformity – Present is key to understanding the past
- Character of rocks entirely accounted for by geologic processes that continue to operate
- Unprovable scientific postulate
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1859, 1871
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Charles Darwin
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- On the Origin of Species
- Descent of Man
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1907
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Bertram Boltwood
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- Radiometric Dating
- Method to determine the age of igneous rocks
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1909
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Lyman Stewart
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- Publishes The Fundamentals
- Essays by 64 authors defending fundamental Christian Truths
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1920
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Curtis Lee Laws
Conference in Buffalo defined fundamentals of gospell
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- Sinful nature of Man
- Inability to be saved apart from Grace
- Centrality of Jesus' death
- Authoritative revelation of the Bible
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1920
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Eighteenth Amendment ratified
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1920 – 1929
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37 states
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- Enact anti-evolution bills
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1920's
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William Jennings Bryan
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- Opposed Social Darwinism
- Championed womens' right to vote
- Helped pass Eighteenth Amendment
- Three time Presidential candidate
- Prosecuted Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
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1955, 1960
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Inherit the Wind
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- Hollywood film adaptation of a play by the same name
- Fictionalized account of the Scopes trial
- More broadly, a response to the McCarthy investigations into intellectual discourse
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2005
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Kitzmiller v. Dover School District
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- School district required teaching of Intelligent Design in Biology
- Eleven parents sued
- Judge John Jones ruled Dover mandate unconstitutional
- Intelligent Design found to be a re-labeling of Young Earth Creationism
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