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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.

— Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)

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“The public mind is poisoned at its source when special interests take hold of educational institutions for their own propaganda.”

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“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.”

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By the 1940s, a fundamentalist subculture had formed in the United States, with a creationist scientific establishment of its own.

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Darrow’s opening introduced his main point. The antievolution statute was illegal because it established a particular religious viewpoint in the public schools.

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