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Charles Darwin (1809-1882), wedding portrait, 1841. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Charles Darwin in 1860, photo taken by his son Erasmus Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882), wedding portrait, 1841.

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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829)

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Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

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Charles Darwin in 1860, photo taken by his son Erasmus

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“Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” Origin of Species, p. 490.

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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

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Ernst Haeckel (right) and his assistant Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay, in the

Canary Islands, 1866-67, (a month after visiting Darwin at his home in Downe)

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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

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Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)

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Ernst Mayr (right) in New Guinea, 1905-2005.

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Sewall Wright (1889-1988)

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New York Times-CBS Poll, Nov. 2004

Democrats Republicans All Evolved without God 16% 9% 13% Evolved but guided by God 28% 23% 27% Created by God as is 51% 66% 55% Unsure 5% 2% 5%

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Charles Darwin, in 1881, the year before his death.

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Ernst Haeckel in 1895

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John Scopes and George Rappleyea, manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Co. and one of the original organizers of events leading up to the trial.

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William Jennings Bryan was 65 when he joined the prosecution team in the Scopes trial. Bryan was a a leading fundamentalist, traveling widely to warn against "the menace of Darwinism."

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William Jennings Bryan during the presidential campaign of 1908.

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Clarence Darrow, flanked by Nathanial Leopold (University of Chicago) and

Richard Loeb (University of Chicago) at the trial in Cook County for the murder of Bobby Franks. After a summation of 12 hours, Darrow got life sentences for them.

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Darrow (standing) cross-examining Bryan (bow tie) at the conclusion of the