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What was true 100 years ago is true today.
Historical sign in Dayton, Tenn., marking the Scopes Trial. (photo: Jerome L. Lawson / Shutterstock)
Officially, the case was Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, a high-school biology teacher. Most people refer to it as the “Scopes Trial” or the “Scopes Monkey Trial” because Scopes was accused of violating the Butler Act, which made it illegal, in Tennessee, to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
Aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes was represented by the famous attorney Clarence Darrow, and the state was assisted by the former three-time Democratic nominee for president William Jennings Bryan. The trial was depicted then (and now) as a classic case of science and reason versus faith and superstition. This depiction is usually followed by an assertion that “science won” the trial and the argument.
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Perhaps one of the most famous trials in the history of the United States began on July 10, 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee.
Officially, the case was Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, a high-school biology teacher. Most people refer to it as the “Scopes Trial” or the “Scopes Monkey Trial” because Scopes was accused of violating the Butler Act, which made it illegal, in Tennessee, to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
Aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes was represented by the famous attorney Clarence Darrow, and the state was assisted by the former three-time Democratic nominee for president William Jennings Bryan. The trial was depicted then (and now) as a classic case of science and reason versus faith and superstition. This depiction is usually followed by an assertion that “science won” the trial and the argument.
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Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
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