Trial and Error
The debate of teaching evolution in the public schools remain one of the most emotionally-charged controversies in the twentieth-century America. Trial and Error, by Edward J. Larson, was organized into five chapters. The first chapter provides historical background by examining evolutionary teaching in America during the years leading up to the anti-evolution crusade. This was done by reviewing the treatment of evolution in textbooks of the period. The first chapter identifies exactly what crusaders were fighting against and explores the timing of their drive. The next two chapters examine the initial anti-evolution crusade and its impact. In particular, Chapter Two traces the reform heritage of Evangelicalism within the Progressive Era, the rise of the anti-evolution issue among fundamentalist evangelicals, and the enactment of the first anti-evolution laws leading up to the Scopes trial. From this analysis, the crusade against evolution emerges as a mass movement fitting the interventionist pattern common to Progressive reforms. The third chapter tells the Scopes story. The account then follows the impact of that case on the ongoing anti-evolution movement through 1960. The final two chapters carry the story up to
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Approximate Word count = 1041
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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