Scopes Trials
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial a simple trial that turned into a showdown between religion and science began on July 10, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. John Scope, a local science teacher, was on trial for teaching evolution. Scopes had broken the Butler Act, a new state law against teaching any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, by using the state-approved textbook and teaching it. Tennessee’s governor had signed it reluctantly when the Butler Act was passed in 1925.
The American Civil Liberties Union raised money to test the law in court and all they needed was for a Tennessee teacher to volunteer to break the Butler Act. In 1925 John Scopes agreed to go on trial to test it out. Clarence Arrow, an urban liberal, volunteered to be Scope’s defensive lawyer. William Jennings Bryan, three times candidate for president and a hero to rural America also joined the trial for the prosecution. The turning point of the trial came on the......
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