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1 in 4 Americans Reject Evolution, A Century After the Scopes Monkey Trial Spotlighted the Clash between Science and Religion

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 | 0 comments

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...

How the Scopes Trial was Almost Scooped

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 | 0 comments

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...

A Century After Scopes: Much Has Not Changed, and Much Has Changed

Apr 8, 2025 | Abeka Books, Accelerated Christian Education, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Science, Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, Christina Littlefield, Climate Change, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Ed Larson, Evolution, George McCready Price, Glenn Branch, Historical Science, Homeschooling, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Margaret Mitchell, Old Earth Creationism, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Scopes Trial, Six-Day Creation, Society of Biblical Literature, Statement of Faith, Stephen Weldon, The Genesis Flood, Vaccination, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Teacher John Scopes (left), and crowds outside the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image via The Vintage News. Here we are, at the centenary of the Scopes Trial. And last week was very much a Scopes week. On Tuesday...

Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit: An Interview with Rodney Kennedy

Mar 10, 2025 | Anabaptists, Andre Chouraqui, Baptist News Global, Book of Common Prayer, Culture War, Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit, David Blight, Democracy, Donald Trump, Doxology, Dualism, Enlightenment, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evolution, Francis Collins, Frederick Douglass, Freeman Dyson, George Lakoff, Harold Bloom, History, Jane Kenyon, Kenneth R. Miller, Lewis Thomas, MAGA, Mary Oliver, Metaphor, Michel Foucault, Mona Van Duyn, Ordinary Time, Otis Moss, Jr., Parrhesia, Poetry, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Walter Brueggemann, Walter Rauschenbusch, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

With the Texas Voucher Bill, taxpayer money will go to private schools that teach anti-science and Young-Earth Creationism

Feb 17, 2025 | Abeka Publishing, Accelerated Christian Education, American Association of Christian Schools, American Federation for Children, Arif Panju, Baptist News Global, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Bob Jones University, Christian Schooling, Creation Science, Creationism, Edwards v. Aguillard, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Faith Commons, Flood Narrative, Fossils, Greg Abbott, Homeschooling, Intelligent Design, Man-made Climate Change, Mara Richards Bim, Matt Ticzkus, Nathan Cunneen, Noah's Ark, Noah's Flood, Public Education, Purposeful Design Publications, Religious Freedom, Safe Schools, Scientific Creationism, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by Mara Richards Bim Mara Richards Bim serves as a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global (BNG) and as program director at Faith Commons. She is a spiritual director and a recent master of divinity degree graduate from Perkins School of Theology at SMU. She also...