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Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scopes Monkey trial captivated the nation in a battle of classroom teachings. DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in ...
Religion News Service

1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion

(The Conversation) — The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic ...
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Reflecting on the Scopes trial, 100 years later

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...
Religion Dispatches

Of Monkeys and Men — 100 Years since the Scopes Trial and Still Missing the Bigger Picture on Science v. Religion

A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the ...
Los Angeles Times

99 years after the Scopes ‘monkey trial,’ religious fundamentalism still infects our schools

Almost a century has passed since a Tennessee schoolteacher was found guilty of teaching evolution to his students. We’ve come a long way since that happened on July 21, 1925. Haven’t we? No, not ...
NBC News

Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted

DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools. What ...
National Catholic Register

Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

“When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, / the moon and stars that you set in place — / What is man that you are mindful of him, / and a son of man that you care for him?/ Yet you have made ...
Christianity Today

Setting Our Scopes on Things Above

A century after the infamous trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness. In the sweltering summer of 1925, crowds flocked to the small town of Dayton, ...
The Conversation

‘Monkey Biz‑ness’: Pop culture helped fan the flames of the Scopes ‘monkey trial’ 100 years ago − and ever since

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins. As historian Edward J.
Religion News Service

The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' has not adjourned

Having nothing better to do the other evening, I decided to treat myself to an evening of Amazon Prime — and watching, once again, one of my favorite movies. I discussed this movie, and its ...
Boston Herald

A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...
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Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...