What is the Creation and Evolution Controversy?  Charles Darwin,
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Widgets for your Site/Blog   The creation and evolution
controversy, also known as the creation vs. evolution
controversy or the origins debate, is a factual debate over how
life was created and which version of the origins of life should
be taught to children. The debate is sometimes cast as solely a
political debate, as if it weren't necessary that one side or
the other be factually correct, but at its root the debate is
over facts and evidence. On one side of the creation and
evolution controversy are the creationists, which assert that
God created all life on Earth as described in the Bible, and on
the other side are the advocates of Darwin's theory of evolution
and natural selection, which asserts that all organisms evolved
incrementally over millions of years.  Though sometimes
portrayed as a global struggle of science against religion, the
creation and evolution controversy is