Scopes Trial and Fundamentalism in the United States

Joe Cain, University College London, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003358

In the 1925 Scopes Trial, evolution served as a proxy for much wider disputes in America between traditionalist and modernist world views. These disputes continued long afterwards, and evolution remains a focal point for deep cultural differences in American life.

Keywords: evolution; creationism; Darwinism; Clarence Darrow; William Jennings Bryan; modernism; traditionalism

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 Further Reading
    book De Camp LS (1968) The Great Monkey Trial. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
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    book Toumey C (1994) God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

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Cain, Joe(Apr 2001) Scopes Trial and Fundamentalism in the United States. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003358]