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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 and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. This book focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship (today Christians in Science), who for more than six decades have worked to reshape the evangelical engagement with science and redefine what it means to be a creationist. ** Review "Christopher Rios' After the Monkey Trial prompts us to revise our understanding of evangelicals and evolution since the Scopes trial o

Author

Christopher M. Rios

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823261383

Subjects

Religion, Science, Christian

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14