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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)

For it is a Norwegian God they do not believe in, so that's what we mean by even the atheists are Lutheran.

— Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor

In fact, the Church was not as hard on Galileo as is commonly thought. The controversy rose and fell over the decades, Galileo growing ever more certain that the earth goes around the sun but having many other things to think about as well, while various ecclesiastical theologians and scientists argued about the case. .. The Church never taught as doctrine the geocentric cosmology everywhere assumed in the scripture, and had in fact reformed her calendar according to the findings of the heliocentric Copernicus. It was 70 years later under pressure, and in a highly political stew, that Catholics were forbidden to hold and defend heliocentricism, though they were allowed to teach it.

— Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly (Page 50)