When I was in school we were taught about the Monkees.
They evolved from the Beatles...
Posted on 07/10/2025 1:54:22 PM PDT by Borges
One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today.
The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial.” The case ballooned into a national spectacle, complete with a courthouse showdown between a renowned, agnostic defense attorney and a famous fundamentalist Christian politician who defended the Bible on the witness stand.
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It is time for separation of school and state.
I watched that again recently
Back when Hollywood didn’t distort the storyline
“Inherit the Wind”? That’s always been seen as a fictionalized version of the events.
Good idea.
Origin by evolution is a hoax EASILY defeated by the massive and uncontroverted evidence of intelligent design and, thus, origin by creation of an Intelligent Designer/Creator.
Hollywood today would have a gay judge
The history on the Scopes trial has been heavily distorted to fit the globalist secular narrative.
“The history on the Scopes trial has been heavily distorted to fit the globalist secular narrative.”
One of the few times Wikipedia gets it right:
“The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution”
There was no persecution.
I read the book “Trail of the Century” on the Scopes trial and there were state-approved text books in use at that time that covered evolutionary theory.
Theory is the highest level a scientific hypothesis can reach.
Oh the folks in Tennessee are as faithful as can be,
And they know the Bible teaches what is right.
They believe in God above and his great undying love
And they know they are protected by his might.
Then to Dayton came a man with his new ideas, so grand,
And he claimed we came from monkeys long ago.
But in teaching his belief, Mr. Scopes found only grief For they would not let their old religion go.
Then the folks throughout the land saw his house was built on sand,
And they said they would not listen anymore.
So they told him he was wrong, and it wasn't very long
That he found that he was barred from every door.
Oh, you must not doubt the word that was written by the Lord,
For if you do, your house will surely fall.
And Mr. Scopes will learn that wherever he may turn,
The old religion's better after all.
You may find the new belief, it will only bring you grief,
For a house that's built on sand will surely fall.
And wherever you may turn, there's a lesson you will learn:
The old religion's better after all.
--Carson Robison, 1925
Teach both.
Simple.
Inherit the Wind use to be a favorite movie of until I found out they out they played fast and loose with the facts.
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