evolution day 1 might be the ec on the test undecided yet

The Butler Act​

“That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the​ Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the ​State which are supported in whole or in part by the public ​school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies ​the Story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the ​Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a ​lower order of animals.[1]”

John Washington Butler​

1875-1952 (Tn Leg. 1923-27)

“In the first place, the Bible is the ​

foundation upon which our American ​

Government is built. ... The evolutionist ​

who denies the Biblical story of creation, ​

as well as other Biblical accounts,​

cannot be a Christian. ... It goes hand in ​

hand with Modernism, makes Jesus Christ ​

a fakir, robs the Christian of his hope and undermines ​

the foundation of our Government

two lawyers

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan​

John T. Scopes​

the teacher who taught evolution

the journalist guy

H.L menken

it was a scam

The Trial was a publicity stunt to bring attention and business to a small rural town in Tennessee​

​It is not entirely clear if Scopes ever actually taught evolution to his students​

Business interests in the town approached Scopes and asked him if he would be willing to be arrested and tried for violating the Butler act

results of the trial

• Scopes was convicted and fined $100 which was overturned by the statesupreme court​

• The law itself was upheld and was not repealed until 1967​

• Scopes was forever known as the defendant in the trial and endured avariety of types of harassment over the course of his life​

• Bryan died from a heart attack several days after the conclusion of the trialin Dayton​

• The trial did little to settle the debate between science and creationism​

• By 1927 13 states had some form of law prohibiting the teaching ofevolution in schools

design of the thingy

• 1996 Michael Behe Publishes Darwin’s Black Box​

• ID says that because organisms are so well adapted there must have been a conscious intelligence that created them​

• While this may be true there is no way to test this experimentally. Therefore, it is not a scientific explanation​

• In 2005 parents in Dover Pa. sued the school district for requiring a statement to be read in science classes saying ID was an alternative to evolution. The parents won and ID was no longer taught in schools

inherit the wind

• Drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee which debuted on Broadway in 1955​

• Play was actually a response to the McCarthy hearings

joseph mccarthy

senator from WI claimed people in state department were commies

purpose of the movie

the right to free speech