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During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...
One hundred years after the Scopes monkey trial author Amanda Opelt tells Religion News we’re still trying to win debates by ...
One hundred years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial riveted America, and still today passions are inflamed over the ...
In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting ...
Before O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco led police on a slow-speed chase down a Los Angeles freeway in 1994, leading to his trial the following year, Americans considered the events unfolding ...
In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...
Scopes Monkey Trial: Photos from the archives of the Tennessee trial on teaching evolution How Dayton, Tennessee, reclaims its story with Scopes trial festival How 'Destiny in Dayton' rectified ...
In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to ...
Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...
For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...
This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my ...