History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 19 (3/21/00)

 

Topics      Reading the Bible   The creation story   Different interpretations  Evolution and fundamentalist Protestantism   The emergence of fundamentalism   Darwinism and religion:  prehistory   New causes, new conflicts   The Scopes trial (1925)

Names and terms   biblical criticism  Book of Genesis  day-age interpretation  gap (or ruin-and-restoration) interpretation  evangelicalism  fundamentalism  literalism  Huxley-Wilberforce debate (BAAS 1860)  Thomas Scopes  American Civil Liberties Union  Clarence Darrow  William Jennings Bryan

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