Tennessee Teacher's Evolution Trial
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100 years after the Scopes trial, science is still under attack
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A biology teacher in Tennessee was accused of teaching human evolution to his students.
The trial was about religion versus science, old versus new and a personal beef between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow .
Randy Moore , a biologist at the University of Minnesota , has researched the Scopes trial for decades .
ACLU wanted to challenge Tennessee law banning teaching of evolution in 1925 .
Local businessmen wanted publicity to revive the economy.
Clarence Darrow volunteered to defend John Scopes , who taught evolution at a local school.
Darrow was an agnostic, and he wanted to expose Bryan 's fundamentalism, Moore says.
The Butler Act was on the books for 40-something years , until the late 1960s .
Two other states had passed similar laws, Arkansas and Mississippi , banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools is unconstitutional.
Susan Epperson v. Arkansas in 1968 was a teacher challenged Arkansas ’ law, and the case went to the Supreme Court .
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