The rest of that year seemed to slip on by unnoticed, almost as if a large chunk had been erased. A new year had dawned, it was 1969, flower power was in full bloom, and it was the year of the Woodstock music festival and concert. Amazingly enough 1969 was the birth of the information highway, what we today call the internet. Then of great international importance, it was the year that man landed on the moon. Of all the events, this was the one that that captured the moment of the year for me, man had finally broken the boundaries of Earth and had ventured into space, the final frontier. Some interesting info I recently discovered, Buzz Aldrin was not allowed to exercise his religious beliefs publicly when they landed on the moon, because the same woman, Madalyn Murray O Hair who was responsible for having prayer banned at public schools in America in 1964 had taken NASA to court to forbid astronauts from praying in space.
It was my final year at junior school and by now I had been introduced to the full spectrum of evolutionary theories or as we were taught "facts"in science, biology, geography and even a bit in history. In science it was the universe and its age, biology, the origins of life, geography, the age of the earth and its contents using the fossils found in the geological column and finally in history the lives of Charles Darwin and associates. These guys were the founders of evolution and who gave answeres to some of the worlds most perplexing questions. Or did they?
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