In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the courtroom spectacle in which a young teacher in Tennessee was put on trial for teaching evolution. Though John Scopes was ...
“At the present time there exist upon the earth five races… each very different from the other. The first is the Ethiopian or Negro type originating in Africa and finally . .. the highest type of all, ...
The republic’s Christian founders made it clear that no faith should have a privileged position in America and that religion ...
A week or so ago this newspaper included a USA-Today supplement commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” in which John Scopes, a substitute biology teacher, was accused of ...
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the infamous trial of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Much of what happened during this circus of a ...
DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans are still divided over evolution. Scopes was charged ...
Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...
The battle between evolution and creationism played out in a Little Rock courtroom in 1981. It foreshadowed issues that still play out today. The mysteries of the origin of life are usually discussed ...
In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...
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