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After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism

After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism

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Religion General General Christianity

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ISBN10: 0823256677
ISBN13: 9780823256679
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Aug 28 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

In the well-known Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, famously portrayed in the film and play Inherit the Wind, William Jennings Bryan's fundamentalist fervor clashed with defense attorney Clarence Darrow's aggressive agnosticism, illustrating what current scholars call the conflict thesis. It appeared, regardless of the actual legal question of the trial, that Christianity and science were at war with each other. Decades later, a new generation of evangelical scientists struggled to restore peace. After the Monkey Trial is the compelling history of those evangelical scientists in Britain and America who, unlike their fundamentalist cousins, supported mainstream scientific conclusions of the world and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. This book focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists' Christian

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