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Introduction The twentieth century was an age of war. In a time that stood witness to the horrors of the Holocaust and the decimating power of the atomic bomb, a time that elevated the act of killing to a macabre art, it may come as a surprise that the most enduring conflict of the last one hundred years has nothing to do with fascism, hi-tech weaponry, or even communism. In fact, it is a battle that has yet to reach a formal conclusion – it rages on, quietly, hidden from the public eye, giving rise to fierce bouts of combat before subsiding, once again, into the shadows. Now the fighting has extended into the twenty-first century. The setting: Perkasie, Pennsylvania. The date: May 9, 2001. The conflict in question: the inclusion of a hundred year old theory in a high school biology textbook. The battle between Darwinism and religion has begun anew. Actually, to the uninitiated, the conflict may seem less like a “battle,” and more like a non-issue from ages hence… Though the conflict may seem old-hat (and, depending on who one speaks to, it is), its vitality and endurance is a testament to its controversial past. It is a debate concerning the facts behind a topic so fundamental that it