{"id":61,"date":"2011-03-25T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/the-creationist-attack-on-science-and-secular-society\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:59:49","slug":"the-creationist-attack-on-science-and-secular-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/25\/the-creationist-attack-on-science-and-secular-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creationist Attack on Science and Secular Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Daniel G. Blackburn<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology\u00a0at Trinity College, Hartford<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1925, John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for mentioning the idea of evolution in a biology class that he taught at the local high school. The trial became a media circus, and gained national attention because of what it seemed to represent\u2014a clash of science vs. fundamentalist religion, a conflict between local autonomy and national interests, and an intellectual battle between two great orators, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. John Scopes was found guilty and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality\u2014 an anticlimactic outcome to the historic conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View The Creationist Attack on Science and Secular Society on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17326654\/The-Creationist-Attack-on-Science-and-Secular-Society\">The Creationist Attack on Science and Secular Society<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17326654&amp;access_key=key-25f9x8wwnhlosa439e6j&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_65301\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17326654&amp;access_key=key-25f9x8wwnhlosa439e6j&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Daniel G. Blackburn,\u00a0Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology\u00a0at Trinity College, Hartford In 1925, John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for mentioning the idea of evolution in a biology class that he taught at the local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/25\/the-creationist-attack-on-science-and-secular-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29,30,33],"tags":[63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}