Jul 15, 2025 | ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Sacred Literature, American Scientific Affiliation, Andrew Dickson White, Answers in Genesis, Arthur Compton, Asa Gray, Biblical Literalism, Charles Darwin, Conflict Thesis, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Dayton, Edward B. Davis, Eugenics, Evolution, Francis Collins, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Harry Rimmer, Human Genome Project, John William Draper, Michael Pupin, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Religion and Science, Robert Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, Science, Scopes Trial, Shailer Matthews, Social Evolution, Social Gospel, Society of Catholic Scientists, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by Edward B. Davis Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University, writes about Christianity and science in the Scientific Revolution and modern America. His new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in...
Jul 1, 2025 | Abeka Books, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Bob Jones University, Butler Act, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Dayton, Evolution, Flood Geology, Flood Narrative, H. L. Mencken, Henry Morris, John C. Whitcomb, John Scopes, Scopes Trial, The Conversation, The Genesis Flood, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to the editors to republish it here. The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law...
Jun 17, 2025 | Billy the Kid, Dayton, Evolution, F.E. Dean, Fort Sumner, Glenn Branch, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Joseph LeConte, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan |
by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...
Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...
Aug 5, 2019 | Dayton, Mass Shootings, Uncategorized |
by William Trollinger Bodies removed from the scene of the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio on August 4, 2019. Photo credit: John Minchillo of AP. Thanks to all of you who have reached out in response to this weekend’s mass shooting here in Dayton. There are no words for...
Jul 5, 2019 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Certainty, Charles Taylor, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, David Ray Griffith, Dayton, Evangelicals, Francis Collins, Freeman Dyson, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Kenneth R. Miller, Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
