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Macpherson and William Riley
Macpherson helped make fundamentalism much more main stream. For her, this was just about gaining wider acceptance in american society. She challenged the liberal evangelical wing of the movement. Now that fundamentalists were in the main stream, riley set out to create a political movement and push his anti modernist genda. He believed that if christian society according to their beliefs, they could cause the apocalypse to come sooner. The question of whether to teach evolution in public schools came to a head with the scopes monkey trial.