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  • Scopes: Same Debate, Different World

    08/14/2025 9:36:36 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 5 replies
    Evolution News ^ | August 12, 2025 | Daniel Witt
    Scopes: Same Debate, Different World This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, in which an ACLU-led attempt to overturn a Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in schools turned into a nationally broadcasted showdown between creationism and Darwinism. Understandably, the Scopes trial is often viewed through the lens of current debates surrounding evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. But the “past is a foreign country,” and it’s often a mistake to try to fit history into the mold of the present. Historian Edward B. Davis’s new critical anthology Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in...
  • Century after man was convicted of teaching evolution, school religion debate rages

    07/10/2025 1:54:22 PM PDT · by Borges · 14 replies
    ABC - AP ^ | 7/10/25 | HOLLY MEYER
    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.