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One of the landmark American legal cases of the twentieth century, the Scopes Monkey trial was one in which teacher John Thomas Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, a law which forbade the teaching of human evolution in any state-funded school. The highly publicized trial gained national attention and highlighted the divide in American views on the role of religion in education. 

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In an old newsreel, a reporter outlines the basic facts of the Scopes Monkey Trial and talks about how the trial attracted a lot of publicity. The Scopes Trial took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee and revolved around the topic of evolution versus creationism. A substitute teacher named John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in a state-funded school, which violated Tennessee’s Butler Act at the time. The trial was staged to attract publicity to the evolution versus creationism debate and big-name lawyers such as Williams Jennings Bryan, a three-time presidential candidate, and Clarence Darrow came to Tennessee to participate in this infamous trial.

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Eloise Reed, resident of Dayton, Tennessee and present during the Scopes Trial of 1925, explains the face-off that occurred between defense attorney Clarence Darrow and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. Darrow, a well-known criminal lawyer and agnostic, called Bryan–a fundamentalist Christian and leader of the Democratic Party–to the witness stand during the trial in order to denounce his beliefs and defend the rights of people to teach evolutionary theory. Reed, along with other historians and experts, explain the tensions and harsh exchanges between the two as Bryan fought to defend the Bible and Darrow fought to discredit Bryan’s anti-evolution beliefs.

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David Menton, a creation scientist with a Ph.D in cell biology, analyzes the significance of the 1925 Scopes Trial, also known as the “Monkey Trial.” John Scopes, a teacher from a small town in Tennessee, was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in a state where laws had prohibited evolutionary teachings. In this video, Menton explains various aspects of the trial, including the strategies of the defense attorney, the prosecutor and the underlying cultural issues that accompanied this trial.

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