In the 1920s, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arraigned in court for teaching evolution. ... He was teaching the evolution of the white man from his animal ancestors through five racial steps. He was teaching that the Negro was the lowest of the transitional species from apes or monkeys to man and if we were to marry Negroes, we would cause the race to slip back (devolve) towards its animal ancestry. That was the airy and conceited theory of the eugenic evolutionists of the time. Again and again this trial has been presented as the fight between the light of science and the darkness of religious superstition. It was racism against Christianity.

— Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly (Page 52)