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Creationists and dinosaurs: Answers in Genesis teams with dissident scientists to deny feathered dino fossil record. Illustration by Cheung Chungtat The dinosaurs of our childhood aren’t around anymore.

Creationists and dinosaurs: Answers in Genesis teams with dissident scientists to deny feathered dino fossil record

The sluggish, swamp-bound pea-brains that haunted museum halls and trundled through picture books have been eviscerated by agile, hot-blooded, and, often, feathery dinosaurs that more accurately reflect what Tyrannosaurus rex and kin were actually like. What’s more, thanks to a heap of lovely fossils, we now know that even the most fearsome of the tyrant dinosaurs were closely related to the avian dinosaurs—the birds—that flit around our backyards today.

South Korean publishers forced to remove examples of evolution from school textbooks. History of the creation–evolution controversy. The creation-evolution controversy has a long history.

History of the creation–evolution controversy

In response to theories developed by scientists, some religious individuals and organizations questioned the legitimacy of scientific ideas that contradicted the literal interpretation of the creation account in Genesis. Interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible had long been the prerogative of an orthodox priesthood able to understand Latin who traditionally held that Genesis was not meant to be read literally and taught it as an allegory.[1] With the advent of the printing press, the translation of the Bible into other languages, and wider literacy, sundry and more literal understandings of scripture flourished.[2] This allowed some religious persons and groups to challenge supporters of evolution, such as Thomas Henry Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.[3] Creation-evolution controversy in the age of Darwin[edit] Theologian Charles Hodge, a critic of Darwin's theories, also praised Darwin for his intellectual honesty.

Scopes Trial[edit] Creation–evolution controversy. The creation–evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs. evolution debate or the origins debate) involves a recurring cultural, political, and theological dispute about the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life.[1] This debate rages most publicly in the United States of America, but to a lesser extent also proceeds in Europe and elsewhere,[2] often portrayed as part of a culture war.[3] Christian fundamentalists dispute the evidence of common descent of humans and other animals as demonstrated in modern palaeontology, and those who defend the conclusions of modern evolutionary biology, geology, cosmology, and other related fields.

Creation–evolution controversy

They argue for the Abrahamic religions' accounts of creation, framing it as reputable science ("creation science"). The debate is sometimes portrayed as being between science and religion, but as the United States National Academy of Sciences states: History[edit] [edit]