It couldn't have been better timed: Hard on the heels of last week's decision by the Kansas Board of Education to enshroud evolution in doubt, New York's American Museum of Natural History opens its “Darwin” exhibition tomorrow. Running through May, the exhibition will be the largest ever devoted to Charles Darwin and his work.

“Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory is central to science and is the foundation for all of modern biology,” reads the museum's web site. The exhibition will explain the controversies that have long surrounded the idea of natural selection and “clarify the distinction between scientific theories and nonscientific explanations about the origin and diversity of life.” “Darwin” features fossils, artifacts, time-lapse animation, live Galapagos tortoises, and a recreation of the study where Darwin worked on his theory.