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Abstract
Americans have long worried about conflicts between scientific and religious beliefs.
For the most part, this ambivalence has not threatened the practice and teaching of
biology--until recently.
A success story about teaching evolution: when presented as unthreatening, explanatory, and useful, evolution can be easily appreciated by most people, regardless of their religious and political beliefs or prior knowledge of evolution.