Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Belaboring Scopes -- 1. Lighting the Darwin Fuse -- 2. The Lamb-Dragon and the Devil's Poison -- 3. Blood Relationship, Bolshevism, and Whoopie Parties -- 4. The Wolf Pack and the Upas Tree -- 5. Beast Ancestry, Dangerous Triplets, and Damnable Heresies -- 6. Flood, Fruit, and Satan -- 7. Trees, Knees, and Nurseries -- 8. The Nightcrawler, the Wedge, and the Bloodiest Religion -- Epilogue: The Baby Christian and the Dark Place -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anticommunist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists. Using the Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was creationists' primary target, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anti-communist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of antievolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement's continuing strength.
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Anti-communist movements--History--United States--20th century. Anti-communist movements--History--United States--21st century. Evolution (Biology)--Political aspects--United States. Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--Political aspects--United States. Cold War History. Religious Studies. U.S. History. RELIGION / History.
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