The Scopes Trial
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The Scopes Trial remains a central example of the battle between science and fundamentalist religion, or religion which is based on received truth and which denies the validity of much scientific inquiry. The editor states that America in the 1920s was divided into two nations, one urban and one rural, and therefore the battle in the Scopes case has been presented at least in part a battle between urban modernism and rural backwardness (199). H.L. Mencken certainly presented the issues in this light, depicting the urban nation as more accepting of scientific truth and so more willing to adapt to reality, while the rural region was clinging to old truths and refusing to accept new knowledge. In his column on the death of Bryan, for instance he refers to the town where the trial took place as "a one-horse Ten
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