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  • Let the Evolutionists Win

    12/21/2005 7:15:48 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 31 replies · 665+ views
    American Vision ^ | Gary DeMar
    I think we should let the evolutionists have their way. They oppose any mention of creation in government schools, even rejecting the notion of Intelligent Design. They see the Scopes Trial of 1925 as the turning point for the upsurge in evolutionary legitimacy. While John Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution contrary to state law and had to pay a $100 fine, public opinion and educational monopoly turned toward evolution.1 One way to beat an opposing worldview is to force its proponents to live consistently with the position. Since Scopes was accused of teaching from the state-adopted textbook A Civic...
  • Rediscovered Photos Provide a Look Inside the 1925 Scopes Evolution Trial

    01/09/2006 1:22:20 PM PST · by furball4paws · 54 replies · 1,721+ views
    ScienceNews ^ | 12/24/05 | Ivars Peterson
    Since we have recently had the Dover trial, perhaps some on both sides will appreciate some great photos of the first "Monkey Trial", including some of the primary actors.
  • Evolution ruling gets cheers from scientists (Forced removal of evolution 'warning' on textbooks.)

    01/15/2005 2:06:00 PM PST · by Happy2BMe · 435 replies · 4,918+ views
    ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Since 2002, Dr. Kenneth Miller has been upset that biology textbooks he has written are slapped with a warning sticker by the time they appear in suburban Atlanta schools. Evolution, the stickers say, is "a theory, not a fact."
  • Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul (Upcoming tomorrow on History Channel)

    04/11/2006 8:49:27 PM PDT · by Paddlefish · 9 replies · 367+ views
    In their series, "10 Days That Changed America", the History Channel will focus on the Scopes trial. As they put it, "The sensational courtroom battle between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the teaching of evolution in a small Tennessee town underscored a deep schism within the American psyche -- religion versus science, church versus state, elitism versus populism."
  • Red in Tooth & Claw

    06/25/2025 7:36:29 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 6 replies
    Salvo Magazine ^ | Summer 2025 | Bob Perry
    Red in Tooth & ClawRacism, Eugenics & Other Bad Ideas from the Intellectual Descendants of DarwinOn July 21, 1925, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinian evolution in a state-funded high school in Dayton, Tennessee. He was fined $100. Scopes had ostensibly lost his battle with the state. But the side he represented was winning the greater war. I don’t say that because Scopes’s verdict was later overturned on a technicality. My contention is that the ideology he helped unleash on the public has been the source of more human oppression, suffering, and death than anyone in that Dayton...
  • Good book about the Scopes trial?

    06/25/2025 8:20:59 PM PDT · by Jamestown1630 · 23 replies
    Over the past year, my husband and I have watched both film versions of 'Inherit the Wind'. I would like to read a good book about the Scopes trial, free of the dramatization and fictionalization. Can anyone suggest what they think is the best book? Thanks.
  • Evolution's Inherent Racism defended by Clarence Darrow: The Monkey Trial & William Jennings Bryan

    08/02/2020 2:48:45 PM PDT · by Perseverando · 2 replies
    American Minute ^ | July 21, 2020 | Bill Federer
    The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 pitted EVOLUTION against CREATION. Clarence Darrow was the attorney who defended EVOLUTION. Darrow had previously defended Leopold and Loeb, the teenage homosexual thrill killers who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 just for the excitement. Darrow obtained a pardon for antifa-type anarchists in 1886 who blew up a pipe bomb in Chicago's Haymarket, Square, killing 7 policemen and injured 60 others. A Haymarket Statue was dedicated to the fallen policemen. The policemen's Haymarket Statue was blown up by the socialist anarchist group Weather Underground on October 6, 1969, prior to the "Days of...
  • Evolutionist Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan, Creationist

    08/01/2019 7:09:10 PM PDT · by Perseverando · 8 replies
    American Minute ^ | July 21, 2019 | Bill Federer
    The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 pitted EVOLUTION against CREATION. Clarence Darrow defended EVOLUTION. Darrow had previously defended Leopold and Loeb, the homosexual teenage thrill killers who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 just for the excitement. Darrow obtained a pardon for antifa-type anarchists in 1886 who blew up a pipe bomb in Chicago's Haymarket Square which killed 7 policemen and injured 60 others. The Haymarket Statue dedicated to the fallen policemen was blown up by Bill Ayers and the anarchist group Weather Underground on October 6, 1969, prior to the "Days of Rage" protests, then blown up again...
  • Before Northam, Democrats Didn’t Just Dress Up as Klansmen

    02/11/2019 1:25:53 PM PST · by detective · 35 replies
    American Spectator ^ | February 3, 2019 | Daniel J. Flynn
    When Virginia Governor Ralph Northam endorsed fourth-trimester abortions last week, nobody called for his resignation. His decision 35 years ago to masquerade, either in blackface or as a Klansman — which malefaction against taste Northam engaged in seems unclear — offends modern sensibilities to such a degree that his party, his predecessor, and nearly every presidential wannabe says he should step down. This says something more about us than him. Democrats did not always exhibit a zero-tolerance policy toward dressing up in white sheets. They once, at least in some parts of the country, demanded it from candidates. In 1924,...
  • Religion-Free Group Says to 'Praise Darwin'

    02/19/2009 9:16:25 AM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 43 replies · 472+ views
    ICR ^ | February 19, 2009 | Christine Dao
    Religion-Free Group Says to 'Praise Darwin' by Christine Dao* How much sense does this make? An organization that bills itself as a promoter of “freedom from religion” posted billboards bearing the words “Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief” in several U.S. cities to coincide with the British naturalist’s 200th birthday. Cities where the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) placed the advertisements include Dayton, Tennessee, and Dover, Pennsylvania—homes of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” and the highly politicized 2005 Dover Trial, respectively. The Wisconsin-based foundation, which put up a Grinch-like sign next to a nativity scene in the Washington State Capitol during...
  • Atheopathy vs Science: Refuting New Scientist’s agitprop about evolution (Darwin-Hitler connection)

    11/19/2008 9:26:10 AM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 37 replies · 996+ views
    CMI ^ | November 19, 2008 | Jonathan Sarfati
    Ed. Note: this is the first instalment of a detailed critique of a major New Scientist anti-creationist diatribe. This one deals with a substantial section in the article, which tries to downplay the Nazi reliance on Darwinian theories, and instead tries to smear Christianity as a cause of the Holocaust...
  • Chipping Away at the Wall

    08/21/2004 8:30:34 PM PDT · by asmith92008 · 6 replies · 447+ views
    NY Times ^ | August 22, 2004 | DAHLIA LITHWICK
    early 80 years ago in Dayton, Tenn., an epic trial pitted the literal truth of the Bible against modern science. And when the Scopes monkey trial concluded, the presiding judge closed the proceedings as he'd opened them each day - with a prayer. In his wonderful book, "Summer for the Gods," Edward J. Larson paints a picture of America in the mid-1920's that's oddly familiar: torn between modernism and religious fundamentalism, Americans felt an old-time burning need for a burning bush. Horrified by the moral and cultural declines of the Jazz Age, they turned away from internationalism and intellectualism. Welcome...
  • This day in history July 21 1925 {Monkey Trial ends}

    07/20/2004 1:56:31 PM PDT · by ATOMIC_PUNK · 6 replies · 381+ views
    1925 Monkey Trial ends In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ends with John Thomas Scopes being convicted of teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee law. Scopes was ordered to pay a fine of $100, the minimum the law allowed.In March 1925, the Tennessee legislature had passed the anti-evolution law, making it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to "teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." With local businessman George Rappalyea, Scopes had conspired to get charged...