SUMMER FOR THE GODS: THE SCOPES TRIAL AND AMERICA'S CONTINUING DEBATE OVER SCIENCE AND RELIGION.(Review) From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: February 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Institute on Religion and Public Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

SUMMER FOR THE GODS: THE SCOPES TRIAL AND AMERICA'S CONTINUING DEBATE OVER SCIENCE AND RELIGION. EDWARD J. LARSON. Basic. 318 pp. $25 cloth, $14.95 paper.

IF THERE ARE MOMENTS in history when "the road not taken" might have changed the course of events, the famous "Monkey Trial," held in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, may have been one of them. According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, in formative, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly ...

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