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 In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement 


Lienesch is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the successive waves of anti-Darwinism, right up to intelligent design." -- The Nation 

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"Excellent. . . . A sophisticated yet jargon-free [prose] that should satisfy academics and lay readers alike. . . . The anti-evolution movement is not abating. It is Lienesch's considerable achievement to demonstrate exactly why that is so."
— Center for Science Education 

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The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch analyzes one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. 

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Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch skillfully analyzes the creationism movement, one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. With fresh insights, Lienesch retells the story of the 1925 Scopes ’monkey“ trial and reinterprets its meaning. In tracking the movement from that time to today, he explores the rise of creation science in the 1960s, the alliance with the New Christian Right in the 1980s, and the development of the theory of intelligent design in our own time. He concludes by speculating on its place in the politics of the twenty-first century.

352 pages 
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (April 23, 2007) 
Language: English