New year brings new attacks on evolution in schools

[A HERETIC I AM]

62. The top picture you provide reminded me of a speech given by Richard Dawkins at ...

Randolph-Macon Womens College in Lynchburg, VA., right up the road from Falwell's Liberty University.

Here's a 1 hour, 10 minute Youtube of the event;

At one point he wonderfully illustrates the scale of time demonstrated in your graphic.

He stretches out his arm and says essentially "Consider the entire length of time the Earth has been here as the distance from the center of my necktie to the tip of my middle finger. Most of the distance to near the middle of my forearm is the time it took for bacteria and other single celled organisms to appear. Higher forms of life don't begin to appear until almost my wrist. The entire time of the dinosaurs is my wrist to the middle of my palm.

The entirety of human existence - all of recorded history - amounts to the dust created with the single swipe of a nail file on my fingernail."