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We Haven’t Evolved Much 100 Years After the Scopes Monkey Trial
DAYTON, TENNESSEE, JUL 08 – The trial challenged Tennessee's Butler Act banning evolution education and drew nationwide media attention, with the jury convicting Scopes in just nine minutes, officials said.
- In Dayton, Tennessee, on July 10, 1925, the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' was gaveled to order, with John T. Scopes agreeing to stand trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act.
- At the heart of the challenge, local officials and the American Civil Liberties Union joined forces, while Dayton leaders 'volun-told' Scopes to challenge the Butler Act, aiming to boost tourism.
- Hundreds of reporters covered Dayton, Tennessee, in July 1925, and the jury deliberated for nine minutes before swiftly delivering a guilty verdict.
- The trial’s outcome, with Scopes convicted and fined, spurred new anti-evolution laws in Southern states.
- Over a century later, the enduring clash between traditionalist and modernist values persists, with 80% of American adults accepting evolution, according to a Pew Research Center poll published in February.
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World NewsWe haven’t evolved much 100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Robert Klose is an emeritus professor of biological sciences at the University of Maine at Augusta. His latest book is “Trigger Warning.” One hundred years ago, in July of 1925, the so-called ” Monkey Trial” took place in Dayton, Tennessee. It was, I think, supposed to h…
Berkeley, a Look Back: 1925 ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ news had town abuzz
“Jury selection marks first day of evolution case trial” was the three-column headline a century ago in the July 10, 1925, Berkeley Daily Gazette. This was what would become known as the “Scopes Monkey Trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, where a teacher, John Scopes, was being prosecuted for violating a state law against teaching evolution. The United Press described the trial as “an atmosphere which combined the elements of a religious revival and cou…
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