Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

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by Edward Larson


  40 “Inherit the Wind: The State Sequel,” Nashville Tennessean, 3 March 1996, p. 6A.

  41 Lewis Funke, “‘Inherit the Wind’ Is Play upon History,” New York Times, 22 April 1955, p. 20; Vincent Canby, “Of Monkeys, Reason and the Creation,” New York Times, 5 April 1996, p. C1; “Mixed Bag,” The New Yorker, 30 April 1955, p. 67; “The Theater,” The New Yorker, 22 April 1996, p. 12; Roger Rosenblatt, “Inherit the Wind,” News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 13 May 1996.

  42 Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (New York: Knopf, 1963), 129.

  43 Tony Randall, personal communication, April 1996.

  44 Canby, “Of Monkeys, Reason and Creation,” CI.

  AFTERWORD

  1 Phillip E. Johnson, “The Origin of Species Revisited,” Constitutional Commentary, 7 (1990), 430.

  2 Tamara Henry, “Teachers: What is Creation?” USA Today, July 25, 2001 (contains full text of Senator Santorum’s legislation and discusses its legislative context).

  3 Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (Burnt Mill, U.K.: Longman, 1986), 4-6, 241, 251.

  4 Edward O. Wilson, “Intelligent Evolution,” Harvard Magazine (Fall, 2005), 33 (excerpt from Edward O. Wilson, From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin [New York: Norton, 2005]).

  5 National Academy of Sciences, Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998), 58.

  6 Laurie Goodstein, “New Light for Creationism,” New York Times, Dec. 21, 1997, see. 4, pp. 1, 4 (includes quotes and discussion of the change).

  7 Ibid; Richard Dawkins, “Obscurantism to the Rescue,” Quarterly Review of Biology, 72 (1997), 397.

  8 Selman v. Cobb County School District, 390 F.Supp.2d 1286, 1292 (N.D.Ga. 2005) (text of Cobb County sticker).

  9 Ibid, 1308-09.

  10 Ibid, 1312.

  11 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F.Supp.2d 707, 708 (M.D.Pa. 2005) (text of Dover disclaimer).

  12 Ibid., 735, 765. Behe’s alternative definition for a scientific theory appears in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F.Supp.2d. 707 (trial transcript for Oct. 18, 2005), 34.

  - INDEX -

  Abrams v. United States

  Academic freedom

  Adventists, Seventh-Day. See Seventh-Day Adventists

  Age of Reform (Hofstadter)

  Aguillard v. Edwards

  Alabama

  Allen, Frederick Lewis

  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

  American Bar Association

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): on academic freedom ; on antievolution laws; and Clarence Darrow ; on creationism laws; criticism of ; and Epperson v. Arkansas; on free speech ; handling of Scopes appeal by; handling of Scopes trial by; instigation of Scopes trial by ; origins of; and public opinion; and Scopes legend; Scopes trial strategy of

  American Federation of Teachers

  American Jewish Congress

  American Legion

  American Museum of Natural History

  American Naturalist

  American Philosophical Association

  American Political Tradition

  American Psychological Association

  American Scientific Affiliation

  American Union Against Militarism

  Amherst College

  Anderson, Maxwell

  Angell, James Rowland

  Anti-Defamation League

  Antievolutionism

  Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter)

  Arkansas

  Associated Press

  Association of American Colleges

  Atkins, Gaius Glen

  Atlanta, Ga.

  Bailey, Forrest

  Baldwin, Roger N.: background of ; role in shaping ACLU ; and Scopes case

  Baltimore, Md.

  Baptists: on evolution; and fundamentalism; in Tennessee

  Battle Creek, Mich.

  Beard, Charles A.

  Bible: acceptance of ; higher criticism applied to; interpretation of

  Biblical creationism. See Genesis account of creation

  Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)

  Black, Hugo

  Boston, Mass.

  Bowler, Peter J.

  Brennan, William J., Jr.

  British Broadcasting Corporation

  British Museum

  Brooklyn, N.Y.

  Broon, Robert

  Brown, Arthur I.

  Brown, Foster V.

  Bruno, Giordano

  Bryan, Charles

  Bryan College

  Bryan, Mary Baird

  Bryan, William Jennings: and antievolution crusade ; “Bible and Its Enemies” speech; on creation; death of; on education ; on eugenics; on evolution ; in Florida; historical assessment of; influence of ; joins Scopes prosecution ; on majority rule ; on media ; “Menace of Darwinism” speech; on pacifism; political activities of; posttrial activities of; posttrial plans of; pretrial activities of; “Prince of Peace” speech; on public opinion ; religious views of ; role attacked by defense ; role at trial criticized ; on science ; in Scopes legend ; in Tennessee ; and Tennessee antievolution law 106; at trial; trial strategy of; testimony by

  Bryan, William Jennings, Jr.

  Bryn Mawr University Buchanan, Patrick

  Burbank, Luther

  Burge, Edward

  Butler, John W.

  Butler, Nicholas Murray

  California

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carpenter, Joel A.

  Carter, Stephen L.

  Catholics, Roman: bias against ; on evolution ; and science

  Cattell, J. McKeen

  Caudill, Edward

  Chattanooga: and Dayton; individuals from; trial participants in

  Chattanooga News

  Chattanooga Times: editorial position of; pretrial news coverage by ; Scopes appeal coverage by; trial news coverage by

  Chautauqua

  Chicago

  Chicago Tribune: Clarence Darrow’s questions in; editorial position of; pretrial news coverage by; trial news coverage by

  Christian View of Science and Scripture (Ramm)

  Civic Club (New York)

  Civic Biology, A (Hunter): Darwinism in; eugenics in ; and Scopes trial; use in Tennessee schools

  Civil War

  Clarke, Edward Young

  Cleveland, Grover

  Colby, Bainbridge

  Cole, Fay-Cooper

  Cole, Stewart G.

  Columbia Record Company

  Columbia University

  Columbus, Ohio

  Columbus Dispatch

  Commercial Appeal (Memphis): news coverage by; posttrial editorial position of ; pretrial editorial position of

  Commonweal

  Comte, Auguste

  Congregationalists

  Conklin, Edwin G.

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cope, Edward Drinker

  Copernican theory

  Cornell University

  Creation science. See Scientific creationism

  Creationism. See also Genesis account of creation ; Scientific creationism

  Creationist legal theories

  Crucible, The (Miller)

  Curtis, Winterton

  Cuvier, Georges

  Dallas

  Dana, James Dwight

  Darrow, Clarence: and ACLU ; background of ; criticism of court by ; on education ; on evolution; historical assessment of ; joins Scopes defense ; jury selection by; pretrial activities of; on religion ; role at trial criticized ; on science and religion; and Scopes appeal; in Scopes legend ; at trial; on trial; trial

  Darrow, Clarence (cont.) strategy of ; and William Jennings Bryan

  Darrow, Ruby

  Dart, Raymond A.

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwinism

  Davenport, Charles B.

/>   Davis, John W.

  Davis, Watson

  Dawkins, Boyd

  Dawson, Charles

  Dayton, Tenn.: criticisms of ; during trial ; education in ; history of; impact of trial on; religion in; in Scopes legend ; trial preparations in; as trial site

  Debates, over creation and evolution

  Debs, Eugene V.

  Deluge Geology Society

  Democratic party: politicians ; and William Jennings Bryan

  Dewey, John

  DeWitt Clinton High School

  Dispensational premillennialism

  Dixon, A. C.

  Douglas, William O.

  Draper, John William

  Eddington, Arthur

  Edwards v. Aguillard. See Aguillard v. Edwards

  Einstein, Albert

  Elder, Benedict

  Eliot, Charles W.

  Elmer Gantry (film)

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  England

  Episcopalians

  Epperson, Susan

  Epperson v. Arkansas

  Equal time concept

  Espionage Act

  Establishment clause

  Eugenics

  Evangelicalism. See also Fundamentalists

  Evening Post (New York)

  Evolutionary ethics

  Evolutionary theory: compatibility with religion asserted ; conflict with Genesis denied by defense; defined; fundamentalist opposition to; as issue at Scopes trial; materialistic interpretation of ; origins of; public response to ; religious response to ; scientific response to; teaching of; textbook treatment of; theistic interpretations of . See also Antievolutionism; Darwinism; Neo-Lamarckianism

  Falwell, Jerry

  Ferguson, Miriam

  First Amendment

  First World War

  Fisher, Ronald A.

  Fisk University

  Fleming H. Revell Co.

  Florida

  Fortas, Abe

  Fosdick, Harry Emerson

  Fosdick, Raymond B.

  Fossils

  Fourteenth Amendment

  Frankfurter, Felix

  Free speech

  Freeman, M. S.

  French Museum of Natural History

  Fundamentalists: and antievolutionism ; criticism of ; defined; institutions of; militancy of; origins of ; pretrial activities of; publishing by; response to trial by; after trial; at trial

  Fundamentals, The

  Furniss, Norman F.

  Galileo

  Gallup, George

  Galton, Francis

  Gee, Thomas Gibb

  Genesis account of creation: acceptance of; classroom instruction in; compatibility with science asserted ; scientific interpretation of ; theological interpretation of

  Genetics, Mendelian theory of

  Geological Society of London

  Geologic history: old earth theory of ; young earth theory of

  Georgia

  Ginger, Ray

  Gitlow, Benjamin

  Gladstone, William

  Godsay, John

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Graham, Billy

  Gray, Asa

  Great Crusade and After, The (Slosson)

  Gunther, Gerald

  Haggard, A. P.

  Haggard, Wallace

  Hand, Learned

  Harlan, John M.

  Harlan, John M., Jr.

  Harper’s

  Harvard University

  Hays, Arthur Garfield: and ACLU ; background of; and Clarence Darrow ; pretrial activities of ; and Scopes appeal ; at trial ; on trial

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Heidelberg Man

  Hibbon, John Greer

  Hicks, Herbert E.

  Hicks, Ira

  Hicks, Sue K.: on Clarence Darrow ; and Scopes trial ; on William Jennings Bryan

  Hill. D.

  History of Fundamentalism (Cole)

  History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (Draper)

  History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, A (White)

  Hodge, Charles

  Hofstadter, Richard

  Holmes, John Haynes

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hughes, Charles Evans

  Hull, Cordell

  Hunter, George W.

  Hunter, James Davison

  Huxley, Julian

  Huxley, T. H.

  Ingersoll, Robert G.

  Inherit the Wind (Lawrence and Lee)

  International News Service (INS)

  International Workers of the World (IWW)

  Jasper, John

  Jasper, Tenn.

  Java Man

  Jeans, James

  Jehovah Witnesses

  Jenkins, Andrew

  Johannesburg Star

  Johns Hopkins University

  Jones, Bob, Sr.

  Jordan, David Starr

  Judd, Charles Hubbard

  Keebler, Robert S.

  Keith, Arthur

  Kellogg, Vernon

  Kelly, Gene

  Kelly, Howard A.

  Kentucky

  Khayyam, Omar

  Kidd, Benjamin

  King, Clarence

  Kingston, Tenn.

  Kinsley, Philip

  Kinsman, Ohio

  Kirkland, James H.

  Knights of Columbus

  Knoxville, Tenn.: events in ; individuals from ; trial participants in

  Knoxville Journal

  Krutch, Joseph Wood

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kunstler, William M.

  Lafayette College

  La Follette, Robert

  Lait, Jack

  Lamarck, Chevalier de

  Lawrence, Jerome

  Laws, Curtis Lee

  LeConte, Joseph

  Lee, Robert E.

  Leopold-Loeb case

  Leuba, James A.

  Leuchtenburg, William E.

  Levine, Lawrence W.

  Liberty, individual: assaults on ; defense of ; developments in ; and fundamentalists . See also Majoritarianism

  Life

  Linville, Harry R.

  Lipman, Jacob G.

  Lippmann, Walter

  Literary Digest

  Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Times

  Louisiana

  Lovejoy, Arthur O.

  Lusk Committee

 

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