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Christopher M. Rios - After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism - 9780823256679 - V9780823256679
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After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism

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Description for After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism Hardback. A study of evangelical scientists during the middle decades of the twentieth century who resisted the antievolutionary creationist movement. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; HRAM3; HRCC99; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823256679
SKU
V9780823256679
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About Christopher M. Rios
Christopher M. Rios is Assistant Dean in the Baylor University Graduate School and a parttime lecturer in Baylor’s Department of Religion.

Reviews for After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism
"The tensions between evangelical Christianity and evolutionary theory have become notorious, but in this pioneering transatlantic study Christopher Rios shows that from the 1940s there were organizations in America as well as in Britain that wrestled perceptively and persistently with the issues involved. Their achievement was to establish that science and religion are entirely compatible."
-David Bebbington University of ... Read more

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