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In the closing scene of the man who shot Liberty Valens,

newspaper editor Maxwell Scott,

and tells Senator Ransom Stoddard,

when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Another day we can talk

about whether that could ever be good advice, but on that day, the biggest challenge to the

newspaperman's maxim will be the story of John T. Scopes, the trial of John T. Scopes for

teaching the evolutionary origin of the human race in a public

school in Dayton, Tennessee. Law professor Samuel Walker has called that trial one of the most

famous courtroom battles in American history. In the nine decades since the close of the trial,

a distorted version of what happened there, the legend, has

become exhibit A in support of one of the persistent myths of the contemporary secular culture,

the idea that there's a long-running war between science and religion.

Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen, in a book used in American college classrooms for decades,

wrote that the Scobes trial dramatized one of the most momentous struggles of the age,

the conflict between religion and science.

No serious historian of science thinks that what I call the warfare thesis when I'm feeling erratic

or the warfare myth, when I'm feeling erinic, or the warfare myth when I'm feeling frank,

correctly characterizes a relationship between these two great aspects of human life and culture.

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