Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s

Religious pamphlets by leading scientists of the Scopes era provide insight into public debates about science and religion

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May-June 2005

Volume 93, Number 3
Page 253

DOI: 10.1511/2005.53.253

Recent controversies in Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states over the teaching of evolution have raised fundamental questions about science, its public image and its role in a religious society. Although debate has focused on our nation's constitutional disestablishment of religion, the underlying issues are far broader.

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