By the 1960s, however, federal courts had long since stop using the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down progressive state economic regulations and in… - Edward J. Larson

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

Already, the three main tactics for attacking the antievolution measure had emerged: the defense of individual freedom, an appeal to scientific authority, and a mocking ridicule of fundamentalists and biblical literalism; later, they became the three prongs of the Scopes defense.

The state law against teaching evolution and the resulting trial of John Scopes did not settle the matter in Tennessee or anywhere else. America’s adversarial legal system tends to drive parties apart rather than reconcile them, which certainly happened in this case.