I have been reading a biography of Darwin and have just come to the part where the publication of Origin of the Species has produced a huge religion vs. science debate at an Oxford scientific conference. I am struck by how far we came since then only to see reactionary forces pulling us back towards willful ignorance. From the very beginning, right after the publication of Wallace and Darwin’s twin papers and the publication of Origin of the Species soon after, the evidence for evolution has been carefully put together by excellent scientists providing a clear argument, while those opposed have used spurious evidence, misrepresentation of evidence and reliance on the argument that because evolution threatens their faith, it must be wrong. Since those initial publications, the argument for evolution has merely strengthened with the discovery of DNA and an understanding of mutagenesis, the discovery of many “intermediate species