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For Next Week’s 90th Scopes Trial Anniversary, We’ve Got Something Special Planned

For many Darwin defenders, the evolution debate remains forever stuck in the year 1925. Read More ›
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New Film Exposes Bigotry and Junk Science of Early Twentieth-Century Darwinists

The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life. Read More ›

Where the “Science-Religion” Dichotomy Came From

Most theistic evolutionists use this dichotomy to try to insulate religion from scientific and historical critiques. Of course, it also removes religion from the realm of reality. Read More ›

The Rabbi at the Scopes Trial

Clergy people and other religious folks straining to put their faith’s seal of approval on Darwin, BioLogos-style, may seem like a very contemporary sign of our own times. Actually there’s nothing new about it at all.

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As Alan Dershowitz and the New Film Alleged Remind Us, at the Heart of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Was a Very Scary Book

"The highest type of all, the Caucasians, [are] represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America." Read More ›

A New Film, Alleged, Tells the Real Story of the Scopes Trial

Alleged stays true to the complicated story rather than, in the manner of Inherit the Wind, turning it into a Darwinian propagandist morality cartoon. Read More ›

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