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you have spoken a lot written a lot about fundamentalism and how it relates to this
whole issue i think it reflected the the real fear
that a certain segment of the american religious population has with the whole
topic of evolution
%uh in the early part of the twentieth century
a little set of pamphlets called the fundamentals was written and that's where we
get the word fundamentalist and and it set down
the requirements for being a good and faithful christian
%um and of course the the topic of evolution represents to
%uh a segment of the religious community
everything about the modern world that they fear and that they dislike
%uh and i think that you that the
the whole
aura around the film and around the whole subject of the scopes trial
captures at least that accurately that there is a %uh a real
dislike of the whole topic of evolutionary theory among people who
who have not been able to
make the accommodation to modern science for religious reasons
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