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  • Lessons learned from monkeying with history [Revisiting Scopes]

    07/19/2005 2:40:12 PM PDT · by johnnyb_61820 · 16 replies · 530+ views
    MSNBC ^ | July 18, 2005 | Alex Johnson
    “The general idea we have of the Scopes trial is that it was largely a kind of rural Southern phenomenon. That’s really caused trouble for people trying to understand the anti-evolution movement: From Scopes we got this idea that it was simply yahoos in overalls who didn’t like book-learnin’,” Moran said. “What’s happened in the last 40 years is creationism has become quite suburban, even quite well-educated and not purely a Southern phenomenon.” At the same time, he said, debate today may be stifled by civic leaders afraid of the fallout in Dayton. “What you hear now is cities are...