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Eugenics and the Clergy in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
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Introduction
When I tell people that I have spent a considerable amount of time doing work in the disciplines of both religion and biology, they almost always ask, "What do you think of evolution?" They are, of course, referring to the controversy that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries between the disciples of Darwinian evolution and those advocating Biblical literalism (Marsden 184-95).
Yet during roughly this same period, an analogous (if less well r...
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