100 Years Later, Myths Continue About the Scopes Monkey Trial

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 07/25/2025 | Jerry Bergman, PhD

[mairdie]

No objection to people not believing in evolution. That’s their private business. They just shouldn’t be teaching anything that would tempt them to make their personal beliefs public.

[dadgum]

“Evolution” cannot exist without Intelligent Design.
It’s ADAPTATION.

Random mutations resulting in a more orderly and higher state of living organisms is STUPID.

[tumblindice]

Charles Darwin was a religious man, his findings depressed him.

[tumblindice]

Natural selection ... evolution, doesn’t care.

[Nateman]

The problem is state run education. Everyone tries to dictate what it can and can’t teach. With private education the parents pick what they want their kids to learn by picking a school that offers it.

[PGR88]

The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was the birth of organized NGO lawfare.

[lasereye]

Adaptation is the only “evolution” that is actually documented. It does not represent the kind of evolution that Darwin claimed but examples of adaptation are generally referred to as “evolution”.

[Getready]

The Trollinger reference abstract indicates that their analysis is not going to be based on arguments about scientific facts, but a general overview of the modern creationist viewpoints. Their analysis claims that creationists REJECT biology, geology, cosmology. A very simplistic, and poor summary of the creationist ideas. But creationists have such a different view of biological history that any idea which goes against evolutionary dogma is considered rejection of modern science.
“Better not step outta’ line you anti-scientific creationists, you.”

[Fiji Hill]

The John T. Scopes Case--Vernon Dalhart (1925)

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

[ComputerGuy]

According to my high school history teacher, Bryan ran for President four times.

[chajin]

The reference to Woodrow Wilson as supposedly anti racism taints the paper.

[Does so]

“With private education the parents pick what they want their kids to learn by picking a school that offers it.”
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View “Reels” or “Shorts” on the Internet and it will become apparent that the vast majority of Muslims support “Intelligent Design”.

[miniTAX]

“the legal rights of the black man… there can be no question. The negro is a citizen, and as a citizen is entitled to all of the guarantees of the federal and state constitutions. He has freedom to speak and to write; freedom of conscience and the right ‘to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ In these respects, there is no distinction between him and the white man.”

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Quite a principled man of his times. What bothers me about those RIGHTS is how the left has switched from being racist to more than fully embracing them.
I am curious about Bryan views on the black man’s duties.

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for posting

[AndyTheBear]

Seems to me the left has only switched the type of racism. They used to insist non whites were evoluntuorily inferior. Now they insist that whites are morally inferior.

[thepoodlebites]

“Evolution is inextricably tied to inheritance.” [1]

1. Replacing Darwin, Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Master Books, (2017).

[T.B. Yoits]

...left has switched from being racist to more than fully embracing them.

The Left didn't change at all and views them as pawns. There is no one more racist that an urban leftist.

[redfreedom]

“religious belief pitted against scientific fact.”

That’s where I stopped reading. I was a believer in evolution until I took a real hard look at how extremely complex living organism are. All the components that make everything work. Taking into account the human and animal brains. I’ve concluded this could not have happened by accident, even over the course of a million years or so. It’s all by intelligent design. It’s the only way it can be explained.

[SunkenCiv]

Remarkably, the only FR search results for "Scopes" (results can only go back to late 2014):

• The Creator and the Scopes Trial [07/24/2025]
• Good book about the Scopes trial? [06/25/2025]
• God vs. Evolution in U.S. Public Schools - William Jennings Bryan in 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial [02/18/2018]
• Evolution vs. God: William Jennings Bryan at the trial of John Scopes [10/23/2016]

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