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The US Science Revolution
USSR SPACE PROGRAM
The
main event that revamped science in America was the beginning of
the cold war, when the USSR launched the first satellite into
space in 1957. To
prove to the world that they were intellectually superior, the U.S
began a massive effort to improve science in public schools. This
proposition included biology, which in turn meant that evolution,
was finally brought back to the school system in around 1959 (Cline). The
fundamentalists were now stuck between two rocks; would they oppose
communist Russia, or oppose the new science refinement in their
country? (Cline).
The Scopes trial was the start of a revolution in science, and was birth of much scientists in the field of biology, palaeontologists, environmentalists, etc. (Digital History)
Without the Scopes Trial, the number of scientists in the US would not have been substantial enough for them to be involved with the race for the moon (Menton).
The Scopes trial was the start of a revolution in science, and was birth of much scientists in the field of biology, palaeontologists, environmentalists, etc. (Digital History)
Without the Scopes Trial, the number of scientists in the US would not have been substantial enough for them to be involved with the race for the moon (Menton).