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American Genesis The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science

By: Jeffrey P Moran(Author)
216 pages, 13 b/w photos
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Teaching evolution in the public schools has been a perennial problem in America. From the courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, to modern fights over "intelligent design" and creation science, evolution and its critics have battled over the role of science and religion in American public life.

But the antievolution controversies are not merely political problems. In American Genesis, Jeffrey P. Moran explores the ways in which the evolution struggles also have reverberated beyond the confines of legislatures and courthouses. In addition to offering a careful analysis of antievolutionism's ideological and strategic development, this wide-ranging social history argues that evolution's reception has been shaped by four peculiarly American forces: a diverse population, regional divisions, a sometimes shaky Protestant dominance, and a tradition of democratic populism. In each area, the battles over evolution exposed and polarized existing divisions. Using extensive research in newspapers, periodicals, and archives, Moran investigates the critical influence that gender ideals have had in antievolutionism, as well as the complex role women play in modern controversies. Similarly, he analyzes the unexamined relationship between African Americans and antievolution. Moran's reading of regional differences explains how fundamentalism, a movement born in the North, came to flourish primarily in the South.

Throughout the nation, Moran argues, antievolutionist ideology has retained strong continuities from its roots in the early twentieth century, despite its modern packaging as creation science or Intelligent Design. Finally, Moran balances scholars' understandable focus on the unfamiliar territory of antievolutionism by considering the self-conceptions and preconceptions of modern scientists as activists, teachers, and bystanders in the struggle.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Darwin Comes to America

Chapter One: Monkeys and Mothers
Chapter Two: Regionalism and the Antievolution Impulse
Chapter Three: Fighting for the Future of the Race
Chapter Four: Descent with Modification
Chapter Five: Creationism and the Campus

Notes
Index

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Biography

Jeffrey P. Moran is Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas and author of Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century (Harvard, 2000) and editor of The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford Books, 2002).

By: Jeffrey P Moran(Author)
216 pages, 13 b/w photos
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"Moran [...] explores aspects of creationism that receive scant attention elsewhere [...] A well-written, thoroughly researched, valuable contribution. Highly recommended."
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"Moran's book has much to offer historians of science who are interested in antievolutionism. Historians of American culture, race, gender, and religion will also profit from reading it."
– John M. Lynch, Isis Review

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