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Article: Evolution _ the debate that won't die.
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- October 12, 1999
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For a half-century after the end of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tenn., in 1925, historians thought that the struggle against teaching evolution, led by Christian fundamentalists, was dead. It's not.
As a rule, historians who wrote of the ``monkey trial'' ended their accounts with the creationists vanquished and the debate buried. But in retrospect it appears that the populist resentment against evolution never ended. Instead, for decades it remained seething beneath the surface of our political culture unnoticed. Then, twenty years ago, with the rise of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, the hostility against teaching evolution in the schools resurfaced among ...
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