Scientific acceptance of evolution, timeline
Scientific acceptance of evolution, timeline
1830 - Publication of Charles Lyell's - Principles of Geology

1831 - Adam Sedgwick (Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge) recants belief in flood geology

1831-1836 - Voyage of the Beagle

1859 - Publication of On the Origin of Species

1871 - Publication of Descent of Man

1873 - Death of Louis Agassiz, the major American opponent of Darwinian evolution

1876 - Thomas Henry Huxley visits the US.

1882 - Death of Charles Darwin

1925 - Scopes Trial

1968 - Lemon v Kurtzman - Lemon test

1968 - Epperson v Arkansas

1981 - McLean v.Arkansas

1987 - Edwards v Aguillard

2005 - Kitzmiller v Dover