Another historian of science, Jeffrey B. Russell, observes that White’s book was “of immense importance, because it . . . explicitly declared that science and religion were at war. It fixed in the educated mind the idea that ‘science’ stood for freedom and progress against the superstition and repression of ‘religion.’”12 In his Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the Scopes trial, Summer for the Gods, Edward Larson notes that in the decades following the publication of the Origin of Species, this “warfare model” of science and religion became “ingrained into the received wisdom of many secular
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