Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble — Minding The Campus

Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble — Minding The Campus

July 2025 was the centennial of the famous “monkey trial” of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was on trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. There is a preferred narrative for the Scopes trial, which goes […] The post Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble appeared first on Minding The Campus.