Evolution exhibit in Chicago challenges creationists

Evolution exhibit in Chicago challenges creationists

A Dicynodont synapsid

The cute cartoon characters that eat each other in a new educational video about natural selection seem benign enough, but they are part of a growing battle in the United States over the theory of evolution.
On Friday, Chicago's renowned Field Museum will become the latest institution to combat creationism with a new permanent exhibit detailing the process of evolution.

At a preview of the exhibit earlier this week, the Field's president said museums need to lead the defense of evolution because they don't face the same level of "intimidation" as schools.

A life-size reconstruction of the famous fossil of Lucy, one of the earliest members of our human family.

John McCarter also warned that the United States is in danger of losing its position as a technological leader because efforts to add the religiously-based theory of intelligent design to school curriculums is undermining the culture of scientific inquiry.

Though Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted as fact among scientists, most Americans think otherwise.