1635: First Public School
Puritan School
©Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS

1635: First Public School
John Cotton
© 2000 www.arttoday.com

1650: Bishop Usher
Bishop Ussher
Public domain

1650: Bishop Ussher
Genesis Passage
Public domain

1660: Spontaneous Generation
Hooke's Microscope
Public domain

1660: Spontaneous Generation
Francesco Redi
Public domain

1735: Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus
Public domain

1749: Comte de Buffon
Georges Louis Leclerq, Compte de Buffon
Public domain

1794: Zoonomia
Erasmus Darwin
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1802: Natural Theology
Paley's Watch Drawing
Public domain

1802: Natural Theology
Paley's Eye Drawing
Public domain

1809: Darwin Born
Chalk drawing of Charles Darwin and his sister Catherine
Public domain

1809: Lamarck
Portrait of Lamarck, by Thˇvenin
Public domain

1809: Lamarck
Great Blue Heron
(c) 2000 www.arttoday.com

1817: Cuvier
Baron Cuvier, from an Original Drawing
Public domain

1817: Cuvier
Mastodon drawing
Public domain

1830: Lyell
Charles Lyell
Public domain

1830: Lyell
Lyell's Principles of Geology
By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University

1831-1836: Beagle Voyage
The H.M.S Beagle at Sea
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1830: Lyell
Darwin's notebooks
By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University

1837: Darwin's Secret
Galapagos finches
Public domain

1844: Anonymous
Robert Chambers
Public domain

1844: Anonymous
Summer 1831
Adam Sedgwick

1846: Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1846: Lord Kelvin
Earth's core
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1896: Radioactivity
Earth's core
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1850: In Memoriam
19th C. drawing of an orangutan attack
Public domain

1850: In Memoriam
Alfred Lord Tennyson
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1856: Neanderthal
Neanderthal skull fossil drawings
Public domain

1858: Flint Tools
Flint tool drawings
Public domain

1858: Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Public domain

1858: Wallace
Title page from The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature, by Alfred Russel Wallace
Public domain

1860: Ape Debate
Thomas H. Huxley
Public domain

1860: Ape Debate
Skeleton's Showing the Descent of Man, Drawn by Waterhouse Hawkins, from specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Public domain

1865: Evolution Accepted
Title page from The Origin of the Species
Public domain

1865: Evolution Accepted
King's College Chapel, Cambridge University
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1865: Mendel
Spurious Allelomorphism in Sweet Peas, drawing from Mendel's Principles of Heredity
Public domain

1865: Mendel
Gregor Mendel as Pralat, c. 1880
Public domain

1869: Fossils Displayed
Diplodocus longus dinosaur fossil
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1871: Atheism
Charles Hodge
Special Collections: Princeton Theological Seminary

1871: Atheism
Alexander Hall at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1843
Special Collections: Princeton Theological Seminary

1871: Descent of Man
Cartoon of Darwin with his finger on the pulse of femininity
By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University

1876 (C.): Horse Fossils
The multitoed feet of the earliest horse, Phenacodus
Public domain

1876: Warfare
Andrew Dickson White, 1899
Public domain

1876: Warfare
Title page to Andrew D. White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology
Public domain

1882: Darwin's Burial
Darwin buried in Westminster Abbey video clip
©2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved

1887: Theistic Evolution
Asa Gray's fern drawings
Public domain

1887: Theistic Evolution
Asa Gray
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1895: Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Public domain

1896: Radioactivity
M. Becquerel in his Lab
Public domain

1896: Radioactivity
Diagram of the Earth's core
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1865: Mendel
Gregor Mendel as Pralat, c. 1880
Public domain

1900: Mendel Rediscovered
Mendel's eye color chart
Public domain

1900-1920: Public Schools Expand
Glenville High School
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

1905-1915: The Fundamentals
James Orr
Public domain

1905-1915: The Fundamentals
Benjamin B. Warfield
Special Collections: Princeton Theological Seminary

1909: Scofield Bible
Cyrus I. Scofield
Public domain

1909: Scofield Bible
The King James Bible, first edition
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

1912: Piltdown Man
First cast of "Piltdown Man"
©Bettmann/CORBIS

1913: Flood Geology
Chief Mountain, Montana
Public domain

1913: Flood Geology
George McCready Price
Public domain

1914-1918: WWI
Ernst Haeckel
Public domain

1914-1918: WWI
German Aggression Cartoon, The Hohenzollern Dream
Public domain

1915: Bible in School
Rhea Central High School
Bryan College

1919: WCFA
Rev. W. B. Riley, D.D.
Courtesy Riley Archives, Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN

1920: Bryan's Holy War
Cartoon of William Jennings Bryan
Reprinted, with permission, from the Columbus Dispatch

1920: Bryan's Holy War
William Jennings Bryan
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1925: Tuang's Man-Ape
Raymond Dart and the Tuangs fossil
Public domain

1925: Textbooks Censored
Excerpts from George William Hunter, A Civic Biology Presented in Problems (New York, 1914), Showing Diagram
Public domain

1925: Textbooks Censored
Excerpts from George William Hunter, A Civic Biology Presented in Problems (New York, 1914), showing Buffalo Drawing
Public domain

1925: Summer: Scopes Trial
Scopes and Co. walking under 'Read Your Bible' sign
Bryan College
Public domain

1925: Summer: Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer for the Scopes Trial
Bryan College
Public domain

1925: Tennessee Law
Drugstore meeting
Bryan College

1923: First Anti-Evolution Bills
Chimpanzee
© 2000 www.arttoday.com

1925-1930: Anti-Evolution Bills Spread
Anti-evolution books for sale in Dayton, Tennessee
©Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

1931: Scopes Myth
Outside the Scope's trial courtroom, with monkey
Public domain

1940: Neo-Darwinism
Mutant fruit flies
Used with Permission, Carolina Biological Supply Company, ©1988

1942: Evolution Shunned
1930-1940, Science Class
Public domain

1945: DDT
Spraying DDT on a beach
©Bettmann/CORBIS

1947-48: Supreme Court on Evolution
The 1948 Supreme Court
Photographer: Acked

Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
1947-48: Supreme Court on Evolution
Justice Hugo Black
Photographer: Harris & Ewing
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

1950: Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII
©2001 CORBIS

1953: DNA
DNA video clip
©2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved

1953: Origins of Life
Stanley Miller working in laboratory
©Bettmann/CORBIS

1955: Inherit the Wind
Inherit the Wind video clip
This portion of video appears on the PBS Evolution web site as a "fair use" under the US Copyright Act. All other uses are prohibited.

1957: Sputnik and Science Reform
The launch of Sputnik 1
NASA

1961: Genesis Flood
Henry Morris
Courtesy Institute for Creation Research

1961: Genesis Flood
John C. Whitcomb
Courtesy Institute for Creation Research

1962-63: Prayer in School
Children praying
© Bettmann/CORBIS

1968: Humans and Apes
Baby orangutan with man
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1968: Supreme Court on Evolution
Susan Epperson, high school biology teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas
Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress

1968: Supreme Court on Evolution
1967-1969 Supreme Court, The Warren Court
Photographer: Harris & Ewing
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

1970: 1980: Creation Science
Creationist Lobbyists/Campaigners, 1981
Courtesy of Louisiana Public Broadcasting

1974: Lucy
Donald Johanson with the bone of Lucy
©Morton Beebe, S.F./CORBIS

1975: Secular Humanism
The National Science Foundation
Public domain

1975: Sociobiology
Edward O. Wilson with a model of a Dacetine Ant
Jon Chase/Harvard (1996)

1981: "Equal Time" Bills
Senator Bill Keith
Courtesy of Louisiana Public Broadcasting

All Rights Reserved
1981: McLean vs. AK Board of Ed.
©Corbis

1982: First Gallup Poll
Gallup Poll questionnaire
©2000 www.arttoday.com

1980-1990 © : Global Spread of Creationism
Creationism spreads worldwide video clip
© 2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved

1987: Supreme Court on "Equal Time"
Supreme Court Newspaper Headlines
© 2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

1987: Supreme Court on "Equal Time"
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Photograph by Ken Heinen
Courtesy the Supreme Court of the United States

1990: DNA Codes
DNA codes offer new evidence of Evolution video clip
© NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

1990: Intelligent Design
Discovery Institute logo
Courtesy of Discovery Media Productions

1994-1995: Textbook Disclaimers
Oklahoma biology textbook disclaimer
Public domain

1996: Darwin's Black Box
Discovery Institute Members, including Michael Behe
Courtesy of Discovery Media Productions

1997: Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
©AFP/CORBIS

1999: Kansas
Linda Holloway, Kansas State Board of Education, 1999
The Topeka Capital-Journal

1999: Columbine
Majority Whip Tom DeLay
Public domain

1999: Columbine
Columbine Remembrance Service, Littleton, Colorado, 2000
© Reuters NewMedia Inc./CORBIS

2000: Jefferson High
Jefferson High School students petition for creationism video clip
©2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved

2000: Jefferson High
Jefferson High School newspaper headline
©2001 WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

2000: Science Standards
Fordham Foundation Data
Public domain

2001: Human Genome
Human Genome reveals human evolution video clip
© NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

2001: Gallup Poll
Gallup Poll shows U.S. still split over evolution
Public domain

2001: Templeton Prize
Templeton Prize winner is devout Christian & Scientist video clip
The Templeton Prize