Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution in the middle of the nineteenth century. Darwin concluded that man was a product of evolution from animals, a process that took millions of years. During 1920’s, change began to overtake the United States as new viewpoints of religion began to surface. It became a common practice for religious leaders to doubt the Bible in the new light of modern science and wondered if the Bible should be taken as literally true. In 1925, The Scopes trial attracted worldwide attention when a young biology teacher went neck and neck with the law because he wanted to teach evolution in his classroom, a topic that very much went against the belief of God who is said to have created the earth in six days and man
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As a professor at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, he is described as a pragmatist in United States History for Christian Schools. This textbook, used to teach history to those of the Christian faith, says that Dewey recognized no higher ethical or moral law. Continuing on with a Christian perspective, the text points out that Dewey advocated secular humanism, “a philosophy that exalts man and usually denies God.” This textbook calls secular humanism a man-made religion that replaces God with the idea of evolution. It goes on to say that this religion also replaces, “heaven with hopes of a man-made utopia, Christ with human leaders, sin with social deviance, biblical doctrine with human knowledge and the gospel with social reform.” The Christian faith believes that secular humanism is full of dream goals that could never actually happen because man cannot be his own God. Sigmund Freud was another scientist and philosopher that was not very popular among the religious because he also was a leader of secular humanism. Freud was outspokenly opposed to religion and claimed that, “a general belief in God and immortality did not mean that God was indeed real.” The Christian text accused Freudianism as a motivation for students to express themselves without morals or respect to the feelings of others. Those of religion felt that, “the biblical basis of early American education eventually became a
As a professor at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, he is described as a pragmatist in United States History for Christian Schools. This textbook, used to teach history to those of the Christian faith, says that Dewey recognized no higher ethical or moral law. Continuing on with a Christian perspective, the text points out that Dewey advocated secular humanism, “a philosophy that exalts man and usually denies God.” This textbook calls secular humanism a man-made religion that replaces God with the idea of evolution. It goes on to say that this religion also replaces, “heaven with hopes of a man-made utopia, Christ with human leaders, sin with social deviance, biblical doctrine with human knowledge and the gospel with social reform.” The Christian faith believes that secular humanism is full of dream goals that could never actually happen because man cannot be his own God. Sigmund Freud was another scientist and philosopher that was not very popular among the religious because he also was a leader of secular humanism. Freud was outspokenly opposed to religion and claimed that, “a general belief in God and immortality did not mean that God was indeed real.” The Christian text accused Freudianism as a motivation for students to express themselves without morals or respect to the feelings of others. Those of religion felt that, “the biblical basis of early American education eventually became a