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Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism . Warm-up. What are topics that science and religion often disagree on? Why do you think that is? . Vocabulary. Fundamentalism -belief that the Bible is literally true and that it can be relied on as an unquestioned authority

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Fundamentalism

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  1. Fundamentalism

  2. Warm-up • What are topics that science and religion often disagree on? Why do you think that is?

  3. Vocabulary • Fundamentalism-belief that the Bible is literally true and that it can be relied on as an unquestioned authority • Evolution- A theory of the existence of life in which all life forms came from change in previous life forms

  4. Fundamentalism in the 1920s • Read pg 385 in your textbook about fundamentalism. • Answer the following Questions: • 1. Why did fundamentalism occur in the 1920s? • 2. What new ideas challenged fundamentalists?

  5. Darrow v. Bryan

  6. H.L. Mencken on the Scopes Monkey Trial • “The Scopes trial, from the start, has been carried on in a manner exactly fitted to the anti- evolution law and the simian imbecility under it. There hasn't been the slightest pretense to decorum. The rustic judge, a candidate for re-election, has postured the yokels like a clown in a ten-cent side show, and almost every word he has uttered has been an undisguised appeal to their prejudices and superstitions. The chief prosecuting attorney, beginning like a competent lawyer and a man of self-respect, ended like a convert at a Billy Sunday revival. It fell to him, finally, to make a clear and astounding statement of theory of justice prevailing under fundamentalism. What he said, in brief, was that a man accused of infidelity had no rights whatever under Tennessee law...”

  7. Exit Slip • How does Fundamentalism relate to the Scopes Trial? • Why was Evolution a Taboo topic? • What was the verdict in the Scopes Trial?

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