In the American state of Kansas, evolution is back on trial. Eighty years after the famous "monkey trial", in which a teacher was prosecuted for teaching that man descended from the apes, the state is once again holding hearings on what schoolchildren should be taught about the beginning of life on earth. More than two dozen witnesses are expected to give testimony and be subjected to cross-examination. Evidence will be presented both for and against the theory of evolution. If the creationists are truly serious about winning their case and genuinely want to bury evolution, they need only play two songs to the assembled experts. Firstly Like A Rolling Stone by
Bob Dylan, released 40 years ago this summer, then Axel F by
Crazy Frog. Who, listening to those two songs back to back, would then dare argue in favour of the ascent of man?