Abstract

Since the last century since the late 20th century philosophy of science, one of the four themes of demarcation into a dilemma. In this paper, the demarcation of science from the perspectives of scientists and creationist analyzed in the "monkey trial" of this famous and refute the defense case, revealing the specific social, cultural and political factors influence the demarcation criteria for science and that in the real world to study the scientific debate, from the scientific elite of the scientific concept of the public turned to the study of science, may contribute to the efforts of the direction of this dilemma. Philosophers of science have been in a dilemma around the demarcation issues of science since the late 20th century. In this paper, we have analyzed the controversies between Scientists and creationists in the Monkey Trail or Scopes Trial, and have tried to find how social, cultural and political factors or contexts influence their views of science and the relationship between science and religion. We developed the following viewpoint: it may be a promising direction to alter the studies on demarcation issues of science from scientific elite and their research activities to general public and related social controversies around science