On July 21, 1925, a Tennessee jury convicted John Scopes of teaching evolution. The “Scopes Monkey Trial” has gone down in American history as the caricature of the fight between “religion” and “science.”
Why a caricature? Because there is no such conflict. Except, perhaps, on the fundamentalist terms that both Scopes and his “scientific” opponents played it out.
Catholic theology long recognized that the Book of Genesis teaches that God created, not how God created. Those are two separate questions.
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