One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...

Dayton, Tennessee is a town of about 7,000 people in Southeast Tennessee. The town was the site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, pitting religion vs. science in public schools. A group of ...

Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much assumed at the start ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins. As ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...

How monumental was the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn.? “It was the most famous event that the world was aware of at the time,” said Richard Baird, whose New Fortune Theatre Company is ...