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Published: 18 March 2021
...This chapter discusses Eva Quartette, “You Can’t Make a Monkey out of Me”, evolution, Scopes trial, and quartet singing Baxter J R Jr Boston Herald Bryan William Jennings Columbia Records Dalhart Vernon Darrow Clarence Darwinism Dayton TN Descent of Man The Eva Quartette evolution Iowa...
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Published: 01 November 2013
...This book traces the history of creationism not only as a science–religion issue, but also as a political movement that skillfully engaged the press with a campaign against evolution grounded in American myths. It examines how the Scopes trial, and more specifically the ideas of its primary...
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Published: 01 November 2013
...This chapter traces the origins of Young-Earth creationism by focusing on the Scopes trial of 1925, with particular emphasis on how it became a template for subsequent clashes over the irreconcilable issue of evolution versus religion. That template includes public schools as the battleground...
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Published: 01 November 2013
.... The chapter concludes with a detailed analysis of the two men's arguments at the Scopes trial. Bryan William Jennings Darrow Clarence Boston Daily Globe Chicago Tribune Debs Eugene Haywood William “Big Bill ” Inherit the Wind Mencken Henry Louis Washington Post anti elitism anti intellectualism...
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Published online: 20 April 2017
Published in print: 01 November 2013
... this movement has captured the imagination of the American public, from the explosive Scopes trial of 1925 to today's heated battles over public school curricula. The book shows how creationists have appealed to cultural values such as individual rights and admiration of the rebel spirit, thus spinning...
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Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 15 April 2014
... on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, and the birth of the anti-evolution movement; the publication of I’ll Take My Stand and the turn to New Criticism by the Southern Agrarians; and Virginia’s campaign of Massive Resistance and Interposition in response to the Brown v. Board...
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Published: 17 May 2013
...This chapter discusses the revision that George W. Hunter made for his controversial book, Civic Biology. The first revision of Civic Biology that George W. hunter provided to his publisher, ABC, before the Scopes trial was not nearly as sensitive...
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Published: 17 May 2013
...This chapter explains that the actual impact of the Scopes trial and the antievolution movement on textbooks can be understood in terms of how textbooks were taught and interpreted. Evolutionary theories of mind were an important part of the intellectual framework that led to the creation...
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Published: 28 August 2014
... Christianity. How this conference came about and the efforts is represented are the subject of the rest of this book. antievolutionism Oxford University Victoria Institute evangelicalism Bryan William Jennings Scopes Trial Darwinism modern creationism flood geology Genesis Book of Genesis Flood...
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Published: 09 June 2023
... as well as his ambivalent secularism during the Scopes trial and Fundamentalist–Modernist controversies. Lippmann’s place within the shifting religious and moral landscapes of the late-1920s and early-1930s is considered in conclusion, including his connections to Protestantism and Catholicism...
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Published: 09 September 2009
...While feminist scholars traced the emergence of the public fetus to ultrasound and other imaging technologies, this chapter examines how embryos were recruited much earlier to “speak” about the social issues of the day. When the Scopes trial was underway in 1925, embryologists weighed...
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Published: 20 January 2022
...Fundamentalism and American Culture. George M. Marsden, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197599488.003.0022 The Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee, had a negative impact on the fundamentalist image. William Jennings Bryan debated Clarence...
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Published: 24 July 2008
... Brecht Bertolt Inherit the Wind Scopes trial Barbour Ian design Paley William Templeton Foundation Zygon Dawkins Richard Ellis George Capra Fritjof medicine neuroscience Protestantism Book of Nature Fritjof Capra Charles Darwin science Scopes Trial In Rome on 22 June 1633 an elderly man...
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Published: 15 March 2012
... claims that his theory was a moral outrage. This opinion regarded natural selection was a cruel process and that it struck directly at certain foundational Judeo-Christian beliefs. It also explores the Scopes Trial of 1925, the role of militant Protestantism in the anti-evolution movement...
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Published: 15 March 2012
... such as W. E. B. Dubois and examples of black antievolutionism including Reverend Charles Satchell Morris Sr.'s well-publicized attacks on Darwinism before, during, and after the Scopes Trial. It also suggests that while the racial elements of the evolution dispute have become muted, evolution continues...
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Published online: 24 September 2013
Published in print: 24 July 2008
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Published: 25 August 2011
... Federal Council of Churches U S fundamentalists modernists National Council of Churches U S Revised Standard Version United States Uniting Church in Australia Bryan William Jennings Fosdick Harry Emerson Scopes Trial 1925 Fuller Theological Seminary Graham Billy Henry Carl F H National...
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Published: 06 November 2017
... commitment to the day-age theory came into full view at the 1925 Scopes Trial. Bryan had been recruited by Riley to assist in the prosecution of science teacher John T. Scopes for violating Tennessee’s law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the public schools (a law passed in part because of WCFA...
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Published: 01 November 2013
...This chapter examines the legacy of the Scopes trial as well as Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan with respect to creationism. The Scopes trial earned a special place in modern America's science versus religion controversy. It defined terms and tactics that have endured into the twenty...
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Published: 02 August 2016
... of a broad populist coalition of farmers and workers. Christian nation Larson Edward J Populism Hofstadter Richard Inherit the Wind Levine Lawrence Scopes trial Bryan William Jennings Gold standard Economentality Mitchell Timothy Debs Eugene V People’s Party Farmer’s Alliance Goodwyn Lawrence...