Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

The rift over evolution and creationism — particularly ... state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville ...

(AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to ... Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

so this was a trial about monkeys? No. In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

(AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall) The Butler Act, the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools that was challenged during the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, is seen at the ...

The Butler Act, the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools that was challenged during the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, is seen at the Tennessee State Library and ...

(AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to ... Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.