Why is there still so much anti-evolution sentiment at the start of the Third Millennium? Why does the debate that began in 1859, when Charles Darwin successfully established the study of evolution, still rage in 2001? In The Triumph of Evolution, Niles Eldredge presents an examination of the creation-evolution confrontation. In this narrative, he reveals the creationists' basic argument and their strategies for advancing it, and counters the charges that the study of evolution cannot be scientific and that it leads to the demise of the family, religion and traditional values.