Taahira Garnes

May 10th, 2021

1. Darwin's theory has been a hard sell to Americans ever since it was unveiled nearly 150
years ago in The Origin of Species.

2. Tennessee famously banned the teaching of evolution and convicted school teacher John
Scopes of violating that ban in the "monkey trial" of 1925. At the time, two other
states--Florida and Oklahoma--had laws that interfered with teaching evolution.

3. "You cannot calculate the probability that an eye came about," he says. "We don't have the
information to make this calculation."

4. "Science does not produce any evidence against God," he observes. "Science and religion ask
different questions."

5. “The intelligent-design people are trying to mislead people into thinking that the reference to
science as an ongoing critical inquiry permits them to teach I.D. crap in the schools," says
David Thomas, president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason.”