Creation science was nothing but religion dressed up as science, the high court decreed, and therefore was barred by the Establishment Clause from pu… - Edward J. Larson

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

Stanford university president David Starr Jordan, an eminent evolutionarily biologist who later volunteered to aid in the legal defense of John Scopes, spoke for many academics when he dismissed traditional Protestant revivalism as “simply a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness that lies in the gutter!”

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