Some 40 years later, a Tennessee science teacher was fired for violating the law. The teacher sued and was re-hired, but he continued the fight to have the legislation repealed. And it was, in 1967.

Attorney Clarence Darrow consults with Judge Raulston about procedure in the Tennessee courts during the trial of John T. Scopes. Credit and source: New York Daily News/Getty Images

On this day in 1925, the state of Tennessee passed a law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in schools. This was - unsuccessfully - challenged in the Scopes Monkey Trial the next year.

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Scopes Conviction Stands; Defense Fails to File Bill

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Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

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On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

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A small box marked "Webster - Chicago Recording Wire" "CAT. No. W-173 15 MINUTE"

The back of the box, printed with "ADDITIONAL PROGRAM DATA:" with handwritten "WILLIAM J. BRYAN 'An Ideal Republic' + 'Immortality'"

Oooooh... I didn't know we had any of these. I wonder what's on it...

Oh, him.
I think we can hold off on finding a player for now.

See:
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CROWDS FLOCK ALL DAY TO BRYAN BIER TO PAY THEIR LAST REVERENT TRIBUTE; SIMPLE SERVICES HELD ON DAYTON LAWN BODY ON VIEW IN COTTAGE Hundreds of Lowly Tennessee Folk File Silently Past It. NO CELEBRITIES IN CROWD Workers Quit Field, Mills and Country Stores to Honor Their Dead Leader. MANY WEEP ON LEAVING Coffin Starts Today for Washington–Daughter Arrives to Console the Widow.

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W.J. BRYAN DIES IN HIS SLEEP AT DAYTON, WHILE RESTING IN EVOLUTION BATTLE; HAD SPOKEN CONTINUOUSLY SINCE TRIAL LARGE EFFECT IN POLITICS Democrats Divided as to How Bryan's Death Touches Party. GREAT CREATOR OF ISSUES Fear Had Arisen, However, That the Commoner Would Cause a Religious Schism. HAD PREMONITION OF DEATH Bryan Felt His Strength Was Waning at the Convention Here a Year Ago. APOPLEXY CAUSES HIS DEATH Had Said He 'Never Felt Better' on His Return From Church. SPOKE TO 50,000 SATURDAY Full of Zeal to Take Cause to Country. He Was Thrilled by Crowds on Last Journey. WIFE WAS APPREHENSIVE Feared Anti-Evolution Fight Was Overtaxing His Strength, but Now Bears Loss Bravely.

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English Versifiers Contest On a Scopes Trial Limeric

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SCOPES GUILTY, FINED $100, SCORES LAW; BENEDICTION ENDS TRIAL, APPEAL STARTS; DARROW ANSWERS NINE BRYAN QUESTIONS FINAL SCENES DRAMATIC Defense Suddenly Decides to Make No Plea and Accept Conviction. BRYAN IS DISAPPOINTED Loses Chance to Examine Darrow and His Long-Prepared Speech Is Undelivered. HIS EVIDENCE IS EXPUNGED Differences Forgotten in the End as All Concerned Exchange Felicitations.

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BRYAN, MADE WITNESS IN OPEN AIR COURT, SHAKES HIS FIST AT DARROW AMID CHEERS; APOLOGY ENDS CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS SCIENTISTS PRESENT CASE Declare Teaching Would Be 'Criminally Inadequate Without Evolution.' THEY INSIST IT IS A FACT Tracing Its Course Millions of Years, They Say, This Was the Way of the Creator. OFFER VARIETY OF EVIDENCE Fossil Records, Anatomy, Embryology and Vestigial Survivals Among Data Submitted. DRAMATIC SCENES IN TRIAL Bryan Fixes Flood's Date and Defends Jonah and Joshua. ADMITS SOME ALLEGORIES Angered, He Shouts That He Is Fighting for God Against America's Greatest Atheist. DARROW RAPS 'FOOL IDEAS' Wants to Free Nation From 'Domination of Religious Bigots'–Court Adjourns in Uproar.

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AUTHOR OF THE LAW SURPRISED AT FUSS John Washington Butler Thought All "Right-Thinking" Men Believed the Bible. THE CALMEST MAN IN COURT Regrets Barring Scientists, Declaring Evidence Would Be a "Right Smart" Education.

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STORMY SCENES IN THE TRIAL OF SCOPES AS DARROW MOVES TO BAR ALL PRAYERS; 'LEAK' DELAYS INDICTMENT DECISION INTENSE BITTERNESS SHOWN Heated Words Are Passed as Defense Calls Prayers Argumentative. JUDGE OVERRULES DARROW Defense Then Fails In Plan to Have Alternate Modernist and Fundamentalist Prayers. PRESS WARNED BY COURT Contempt Action Threatened on Premature Publication of Ruling on the Indictment.

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EUROPE IS AMAZED BY THE SCOPES CASE British and Continental Press Report the Proceedings and Comment on its Significance. NOTED SCIENTISTS PROTEST Lloyd George and Theologians Are Also Quoted in Condemnation of Tennessee Law.

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Wow, a century ago. And tragic to think that science and even The Enlightenment in general is in retreat in modern US 🥲 #ScopesMonkeyTrial

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A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

As the barrier between democracy and oppressive theocracy grows increasingly thin in the United States, it's hard to believe it's been 100 years since the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925...
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A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages 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.

A century after a man was convicted of teaching evolution, the debate on religion in schools rages. History remembers it as the "Monkey Trial." The case ballooned into a national spectacle.
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DAYTON KEYED UP FOR OPENING TODAY OF TRIAL OF SCOPES Intense Excitement Grips Town as Principals Reach Scene of Battle on Evolution. JUDGE GIVES HIS ATTITUDE Says He Wants Inquiry for "Eternal Truth" and Warns Against Personal Ambitions. STATE'S CASE TO BE BRIEF Defense Will Then Produce Scientists and Educators–Catholics Offer Help to Bryan.

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Essay: One hundred years after Scopes trial, cultural discourse about 'Bible Belt' Christians still suffers - Sight Magazine Author AMANDA HELD OPELT says perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies.

Essay: One hundred years after Scopes trial, cultural discourse about ‘Bible Belt’ Christians still suffers. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Scopesmonkeytrial #JohnTScopes #WilliamJenningsBryan #ClarenceSewardDarrow #evolution #HenryLouisMencken #BibleBelt #Dayton

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underreported aspect of the story is the #DrugstoreConspiracy that literally met in a drugstore to plot the #ScopesMonkeyTrial in order to raise the profile of #DaytonTN and reap the economic benefits .. the carnival atmosphere was part of the plan!
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100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates A century after a famous trial that centered on the teaching of evolution, science continues to be at the center of contentious public debates.

100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates #Science #ScienceHistory #ScopesMonkeyTrial #EvolutionDebate #ScienceAndReligion

SCOPES FAILS TO GET FEDERAL INJUNCTION; STATE TRIAL FRIDAY Judge Gore Rules Tennessee Officers Are Acting in the Only Way They Are Authorized. TWO PETITIONS PRESENTED Teacher Charges Violation of Liberty-Parent Asserts Right to Educate His Children. APPEAL TO BE TAKEN LATER Darrow Says He Fears the State Court May Limit the Case to Whether Law Was Violated.

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$10,000 Defense Fund Is Asked for Scopes; To Be Spent on Case in the Lower Courts

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Scopes Refused $50,000 Movie Offer Here; Stunned, He Pays $7.70 for a Show Ticket

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COLBY AND DARROW WILL DEFEND SCOPES Hope to Make the Trial Decrease Hostility of Many Religious Persons to Evolution. EXPECT FINE, THEN APPEAL Education Through Newspapers to Be Aim Until the Case Is Decided.

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The American Drugstore | American Experience | PBS It began over cokes and phosphates in a drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee. A little scheme to boost the local economy exploded into the trial of the century.

#DrugstoreConspiracy: the #ScopesMonkeyTrial was a plan to boost the local economy, hatched at a soda fountain! 🤓🤓🤓
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John T. Scopes discusses the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 John T. Scopes was a young teacher who taught biology. He was arrested because in Tennessee, no theory of the origin of man could be taught in schools. Clarence Darrow, an attorney from Chicago, defen...

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FRIDAY DATA DUMP: Scopes Made A Monkey Outta Me We inherited the windbags

FRIDAY DATA DUMP: Scopes Made A Monkey Outta Me
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A Century Ago, a High School Teacher From a Small Tennessee Town Ignited a National Debate Over Human Evolution The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other states today

A Century Ago, a High School Teacher From a Small Tennessee Town Ignited a National Debate Over Human Evolution: The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was… @SmithsonianMag #ScopesMonkeyTrial #HumanEvolution #ScienceDebate #TennesseeHistory #EducationMatters

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Historic Scopes Monkey Trial remembered with course, lecture at Berkshire OLLI - The Berkshire Edge “While there were fights about all of this 100 years ago, it’s as if the case was ripped from today’s headlines,” said Douglas Mishkin, who will be teaching a six-week course on the Scopes Monkey Tria...

Historic Scopes Monkey Trial remembered with course, lecture at Berkshire OLLI.

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