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  • n  Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
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  • After 88 years, dogma still trumps education
    I wonder if the irony of the situation was lost on the professors at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minn., when they bullied students out of participating in a production of “Inherit the Wind,” a play about the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925 that took on the Christian opposition to the teaching of evolution. Granted no one was arrested for trying to produce the play, as John Scopes was for ...
    Oct. 11, 2013 - Grand Rapids Herald-Review

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