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When Darrow took on Bryan 100 years ago today, science got the win. Or did it?
The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...
100 years ago, the Scopes trial gripped the nation. 'Let no one mistake it for a comedy'
Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...
A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages
The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...
Third parties are a fool’s errand in America, and Elon Musk is just the latest fool
Elon Musk’s America Party will eventually go the same way as No Labels and the Forward Party if it follows the same failed ...
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100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom
On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...
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On the 100th Anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, Paducah Film Society screening “Inherit the Wind”
July 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, when science and religion was put on trial in ...
Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters
As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.