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“The inexorable growth of [biology] continues to widen, not to close the tectonic gap between science and faith-based religion.”

— 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.”

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)

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