The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' was the culmination of decades of evolutionary thought and philosophy slowly leaking into America's school system. Starting in major colleges and eventually trickling into the public school system, the atheism of evolutionary belief was introduced to unsuspecting children by their teachers and professors until it came to a head in rural Tennessee in 1925. The judgment in creationism's favor was belittled by liberal press coverage, and eventually pilloried on stage and in a major motion picture (which used the events of the trial to color public opinion against Senator Joseph McCarthy's attempts to expose communist influences among America's elite), driving creationism teaching into a decline in the middle 20th century, regardless of evolution's fruits being on prominent display in the ideologies of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, each with many millions of deaths attributable to their regimes.
Creation & the Courts traces the demonization of creationist teaching and what was once called 'fundamentalist' Christianity in America since the Scopes trial, addressing pertinent lower court cases where necessary but concentrating on the Supreme Court's involvement with this issue. Partial transcripts of trial proceedings, information surrounding the events and media coverage, and Geisler's own words from his own expert testimony make this a fascinating compendium, showing the underlying biases of a culture that has slowly become infected with anti-biblical systems of belief. Anyone interested in either side of this still-current debate will find it illuminating and instructive.
