The Long-Term Outcome of the Scopes "Monkey Trial

question 36

Multiple Choice

The long-term outcome of the Scopes "Monkey Trial"

• A) represented, at best, a hollow victory for Fundamentalism because it cast ridicule of the fundamentalist cause and highlighted the dubious rationality of a relying on a literal theological reading of the Bible to overturn the findings of modern science.
• B) halted the trend of increasing numbers of Christians reconciling the asserted revelations of Christianity with modern science.
• C) was an unmitigated political and religious triumph of the fundamentalist Christian effort to deny the increasing influence of modern science in American educational and cultural life.
• D) permitted the gap between fundamentalist Christian theology and biology to narrow considerably.
• E) reversed Fundamentalism's place as a vibrant force in American spiritual life.

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