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One Hundred Years – Religion and the Public Schools
A century ago, the Scopes Trial and Pierce v. Society of Sisters set the course for America’s schools—one ushering in Darwinian evolution, the other defending parental rights. The clash between faith and government control over our children’s education continues to this day.
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Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, Arthur Garfield Hays, Center of the Storm, Charles Darwin, Chattanooga Daily Times, Clarence Darrow, Darwinism, Horace Mann, James C. McReynolds, materialism, naturalism, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, The Butler Act, The Compulsory Attendance Act of 1922, The Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson
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A Thinking People’s Revolt
Science Uprising Pulls back the Curtain on Pseudo-Scientific Posturing
In the 1980s, Madonna captured the image of one girl’s shallow, self-absorbed life with her pop song, “Material Girl”:
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl.
The era’s personal materialism of “I like stuff” or “Stuff is all that matters” was also captured in TV teen Alex Keaton of the sitcom Family Ties. Individuals may not be so enamored today of material things, but there’s another kind of collective materialism that holds undue sway in our culture. I’m talking about …
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Alex Keaton, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin, Discovery Institute, Elin Kelsey, Family Ties, Madonna, Material Girl, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science Uprising, You Are Stardust
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