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“The public mind is poisoned at its source when special interests take hold of educational institutions for their own propaganda.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
“The inexorable growth of [biology] continues to widen, not to close the tectonic gap between science and faith-based religion.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
“We have to live in the universe science gives us. A theology that is contrary to reality must be abandoned or improved.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
By the 1940s, a fundamentalist subculture had formed in the United States, with a creationist scientific establishment of its own.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
Darrow’s opening introduced his main point. The antievolution statute was illegal because it established a particular religious viewpoint in the public schools.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
Darrow shortly wrote to Mencken about the examination of Bryan, “I made up my mind to show the country what an ignoramus he was and I succeeded.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
Creation science was nothing but religion dressed up as science, the high court decreed, and therefore was barred by the Establishment Clause from public school classrooms along with other forms of religious instruction.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
By the 1960s, however, federal courts had long since stop using the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down progressive state economic regulations and instead used it to avoid repressive state social legislation.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
“If the Anti-Evolutionists in Tennessee were aware of the existence of any other religions than their own, they might realize that it is the very genius of religion itself to evolve from primary forms to higher forms.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
“I never yet found any conservative lawyer who, at the beginning, wanted to undertake a case which might reflect discredit on him. When it turns out differently and there seems to be some publicity or honor to be had, then offers of assistance come from all over the country.”
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)
Already, the three main tactics for attacking the antievolution measure had emerged: the defense of individual freedom, an appeal to scientific authority, and a mocking ridicule of fundamentalists and biblical literalism; later, they became the three prongs of the Scopes defense.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)