From Adam to ape
In the beginning there was darkness. All enveloping. Then the Kansas Board of Education in the us finally saw the light. Evolution or rather the teaching of it had to go. The science of evolution had never been proven in a laboratory. Therefore, it must be dropped from the curriculum. Children must be taught the truth. How God made the world in seven days and how out of a man's rib he made woman.
The couple, Adam and Eve, were the first humans. The world, too, had merely been created the same week. They lived in the Garden of Eden approximately 10,000 years ago.
Charles Darwin first challenged this theory of creation. He replaced it with the theory of evolution in his book the Origin of Species . Darwin alleged something to the effect that all life on the planet had evolved from a common single-celled ancestor, born by accident in the slime of the Earth's early seas.
The Kansas decision also deletes references to ideas like the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. But it isn't the first time people have reacted like this. The armies of Attila the Hun and Tamerlane
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