Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know anything about the topic.

Scopes was arrested on May 9 and the trial started July 10. The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought ...

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 ...

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.

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.

(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.

(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 ...