Study Guide: A New Light (Episode 4) PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Who really won the Scopes Trial? The trial is described as representing "one of the deepest and most persistent conflicts of modern American culture." (EXPLAIN)
How does the 1925 conflict compare to current religion and science divides in American culture?
The response to modernism and the Scopes Trial also forced a split between liberals and conservatives, and created divisions and quarrels among Protestants themselves, as well as among Catholics and Jews, that still persist. (EXPLAIN)
What impact have those ideological fissures within religious groups had on them and on religion in America?
In what ways are the divisions still manifest in current debates over social issues?
How was America's special relationship with God at stake in the Scopes Trial?
Why was "America's covenant relationship with God in peril."(EXPLAIN)
How did the wreckage of World War I contribute to this fear?
What other threats loomed?
Do you agree with the suggestion that "Darwinism undermined the notion of what it means to be an American"?
How would you compare Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan religiously, temperamentally, politically?
While Darrow put fundamentalist Christianity itself on trial in Dayton, Tenn., fundamentalists felt, as Randall Balmer says, that "the integrity of the Bible" was on trial. What issues would you say were at stake in the Scopes Trial?