[AndrewC]

I know it was a test trial. So was Dover.

Scopes was not just a test trial, it was a conspiracy to bring about the charges. Read the link I presented. The ACLU was involved in both cases. You know them, they are the conservative legal group. /sarc

[antiRepublicrat]

Scopes was not just a test trial, it was a conspiracy to bring about the charges.

That's pretty much what test trials are. The Discovery Institute was in "a conspiracy to bring about" the Dover trial.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

The ACLU was involved in both cases. You know them, they are the conservative legal group. /sarc

Indeed they are, and Clarence Darrow was the premiere conservative advocate of the land, as you can see here: In Defense of the Communists, Clarence Darrow.