Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
21
Language
English
Published
Nov 11, 2014
Publisher
Locust and Honey Publications
Description
Many are familiar with the 1925 Tennessee Scopes Trial as a turning-point in the Fundamentalism-Modernism controversy wherein the former took a proverbial "back seat" to the latter. Less known is the motivation behind the passing and legal defense of the Butler Act which promoted humankind as a special creation of God. This legislation safeguarded the ideal of a generic humanity from the attacks of eugenics proponents who relied on Darwinism to spread the notion that certain humans were sub-standard.