1. Scientific Theories and Laws
2. The First Decade (1936-1946)
4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)
6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)
8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)
10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)
12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)
14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)
15. The Theory of More than Everything
16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)
18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)
Appendix A Paintings
Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe
Appendix C Musical Compositions
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Before Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, almost everyone thought the Bible story was just fine, scientists included. Why would a perfect God create life needing improvement? Everything is as good as it can be; that was the thinking. However, Darwin's book, published in 1859, brought too many answers to life's puzzles. With so much evidence from so many directions, perhaps we should be calling the Theory of Evolution a law by now, but apparently the word hasn't gotten around.
We will cover some of the most common sources of evidence for evolution in the studies of fossils1, fetuses2, and genes3.
FIRST, FOSSILS:
A fossil might be a bone of a long-gone animal, some bone replaced by hardened mud, or only a dent in mud like a footprint. About fifty years before Darwin's book appeared, a little twelve-year old girl in England found a skeleton of something like a sea serpent4. This animal sank into the mud when it died and ended up as a fossil. Since we've never seen such a creature alive today (trotting or swimming), it must have been one of those perfectly created animals not quite perfect enough to survive. In fact, 99.99% of all the species from our past have disappeared.
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