The Scopes Trial Centennial is over,
but Scopes-in-Reverse continues.
Here’s how to fight back.

Evolutionary icons can…evolve. It took decades, but eugenics toppled and fell. So did scientific racism and social Darwinism. Science journal editors hasten to apologize for the sins of their predecessors, calling these historical trends “misinterpretations” of Darwinism at best, and scandals at worst. Several of the ten Icons of Evolution analyzed by Jonathan Wells, though rising zombie-like from time to time (as Wells addressed in Zombie Science, adding six more icons), are on the way out. From my experience, reporters seem less hasty to print Haeckel’s embryos or four-winged fruit flies as evidence for Darwinian evolution, and the March of Man has become more of a cartoon meme than a serious depiction of human ancestry. The intelligent design movement is having an effect.

One of the last icons that must go is what Phillip Johnson called the “Inherit the Wind stereotype,” referring to the play and movie that mangled the story of the now century-old Scopes Trial. For decades, the movie was required viewing in many public schools. I remember seeing it in my high school. Later, I’ll suggest a way to turn the tables on that hoary indoctrination tool, but for now, consider the stark contrasts between the actual trial and the stereotype.

The Myth of Science vs. Religion

CEH writer Dr Jerry Bergman quotes original sources to show the racism of evolutionists in the Scopes Trial.

There has been no shortage of scholarship debunking “science vs. religion” as the central myth at issue in the Scopes Trial. For instance….

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