The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
by
Adam R. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at...