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For basic discussion, see emucompboy's excellent answer.

For links ... here you go ... a one-stop stop:

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE): http://ncse.com/

"Evolution":

http://ncse.com/evolution

"Creationism":

http://ncse.com/creationism/general/brief-history-...

"Intelligent Design":

http://ncse.com/creationism/general/what-is-intell...

By the way, I am NOT suggesting that this be your only source. But as you explore it, it has a LOT of links to other places for more information.

Ask questions if you have 'em. (Email is fine.)

> 3 page essay on evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Eugenics?

Yep.

> Intro

Hotbed of politics, with a bunch of ignoramuses ignoring science, starting right at the top with George W. Bush.

> Evolution

Allele frequencies in populations change over time. Over greater periods of time, more changes accumulate.

> History of Evolution

Anaximander of Miletus came up with the crazy idea that not-quite-people came out of the oceans.

After him, people noted that populations change over time, but didn't know how or why.

Darwin and Wallace independently came up with the "descent with modifications" "natural selection" model.

Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published on "punctuated equilibria" in 1972.

> How it started

Probably self-replicating ribozymes, aka "RNA World."

> Why it started

Chemical bonding properties of atoms available on early Earth, and physical processes possibly including lighting, UV light, localized volcanic heat, liquid water, and less than a billion years of time.

> How it spread

Some pretty good replicators replicated. As things got more complicated, we start calling it "reproduction."

> Evolution effect over 100 years on U.S., Evolution now,

We like to breed crop plants, if that's what you're asking.

> Where people think it will go

Genetic engineering will be used on our future crop plants, and possibly some animals too.

> How it is improving/getting worse, What it will be,

Greater crop yields per acre.

> Creationism

God did it, final answer. When you have the final answer, you don't go looking for other answers.

> How it started

G-d did it. Then Abraham had a dream about G-d. Then G-d inspired Moses to write about it in what became the Pentateuch.

> Why people turned away from it

Because the (approximately) 6000 year old Earth model of Biblical Creationism was at odds with radiometric dating and rates of sedimentation.

> What it would be

God did it

> Intelligent Design, What it would be, How it started,

Same as Biblical Creationism, but not specifically naming the god of Abraham as the Intelligent Designer. (Go on, ask Michael Behe who he believes the Intelligent Designer(s) to have been. I double dog dare you).

> Why people turned away from it

Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District

> Creationism vs Evolution

Faith (belief without evidence) vs evidence

> Proof about Creationism

None

> Proof about Evolution

Allele frequencies change in populations over time. They really do.

> Eugenics, How it started, Why it started, How it spread

Selective breeding

> Where theory originated, When, Effect on US

Abused as an excuse to keep some groups of people from breeding.

> Conclusion

Yep

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFHxOlm0dk