By the 1940s, a fundamentalist subculture had formed in the United States, with a creationist scientific establishment of its own. - Edward J. Larson

Conservative Christians drew together across denominational lines to fight for the so-called fundamentals of their traditional faith against the perceived heresy of modernism, and in so doing gave birth to the fundamentalist movement and antievolution crusade.

We have to live in the universe science gives us. A theology that is contrary to reality must be abandoned or improved.

The inexorable growth of [biology] continues to widen, not to close the tectonic gap between science and faith-based religion.