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GSA Position Statement Evolution — May 2001 Contributors: Steven M. Stanley — Chair The Geological Society of America recognizes that the evolution of life stands as one of the central concepts of modern science. Research in numerous fields of science during the past two centuries has produced an increasingly detailed picture of how life has evolved on Earth. The rock record is a treasure trove of fossils, and by 1841, eighteen years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, geologists had not only assembled much of the geologic time scale from physical relationships among bodies of rock, but...

Religion vs. Science; Which came first Creation or Evolution?       What is all the hullabuloo over today when it comes to discussing where we came from, as well as where every living thing around us came from? Why is it that there are those that don’t want the theory of Creation taught side by side with the theory of Evolution?       To start with, what exactly is the difference in the two? The first thing that will be used against Creation is that it is religious material, and we can’t forget the “rule” of “seperation of church and state.”...