“We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling
the education of the United States,” declared Clarence Darrow in the Scopes
trial, where religion and science clashed and tangled over evolution. Edward
Larson won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his excellent Summer for the Gods,
an investigation into the trial and why it still matters. Get the paperback to
get up to speed. Published by Harvard University Press,
£9.50/$14.95, ISBN 0674854292.
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