10 July 1925: Scopes 'Monkey Trial' Begins
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Clarence Darrow (left) and William Jennings Bryan (right) chat in court during the Scopes trial in 1925.
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The "Scopes Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial") pitted against each other lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow (the latter representing teacher John T. Scopes) in an American court case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "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."And yes, the trial was a three-ring circus.
This is often interpreted as meaning that the law forbade the teaching of any aspect of the theory of evolution.
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posted by Fergie @ 7/09/2006 10:01:00 PM
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