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    Protestant Fundamentalism and the Controversy over Evolution-Creationism in American Public Schools 1925-2005: An Illustration of the American Political Theology
    (Université 20 aout 1955 skikda, 2023) Khenssa, Cheriet; Mokhtar ,Ben Barka
    The recent controversy over teaching Darwin’s evolutionary theory in America’s public schools has raised staple questions about its true origin. The strategy that Protestant fundamentalists, as disciples of a large religious group in America, espouse when dealing with such a conflict between 1925 and 2005 has changed pejoratively over time. By looking within the United States, Protestant fundamentalists have consistently adduced an uncompromising view towards an endless debate over evolution-creationism. As a theory that contradicts common religious beliefs, Charles Darwin’s idea which doubts the existence or non-existence of a deity along with an introduction to a certain robust explanation of the origin of life, has made Protestant fundamentalists in the late 19th century fear this outlandish idea. A theory like Charles Darwin’s one which suggests that human begins like other creatures on Earth, have a common form of lower ancestor, has frightened them for it threatens a familiar and infallible biblical exegesis of the universe origin. However, in order to understand their peculiarity and distinction, the study of Protestant fundamentalists and fundamentalism, as a phenomenon in relation to evolution, needs new explanations. For such, we opt to examine the origin of the fundamentalist movement, which arose after the spread of the evolutionary theory in American public schools, by neither referring to personality nor referring to psychology abnormalities. Our aim is to introduce a new perspective that permits us to examine the core beliefs of fundamentalists that shape their behavior. As a result, our theoretical framework is broadly social psychological which helps us spot light on the nature of fundamentalism, as a religious movement of societal and very important political importance in America