What is the purpose of this examination?" Darrow answered honestly. "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the ed… - Edward J. Larson

If the Anti-Evolutionists in Tennessee were aware of the existence of any other religions than their own, they might realize that it is the very genius of religion itself to evolve from primary forms to higher forms.

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

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!”