US EditionWhy Many Americans Still Think Darwin Was Wrong, yet the British Do Not
DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, JUL 14 – The 1925 trial challenged Tennessee's Butler Act banning evolution teaching and sparked ongoing debates over science and religion in education, with the ACLU playing a key role.
- In July 1925, John Scopes, a public high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was tried for violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in public schools.
- This legal conflict emerged when Tennessee enacted the Butler Act earlier that year, prohibiting the teaching of any theory that contradicted divine creation, which ignited widespread controversy across the country regarding evolution and school curricula.
- The highly publicized Scopes trial lasted eight days, featured speeches by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, and ended with Scopes found guilty and fined $100.
- Recent data from 2020 shows 64% of Americans accept evolution, compared with 73% of Britons, with religious fundamentalism being the strongest predictor of evolution rejection in the US.
- The century since the trial reveals that acceptance of evolution is linked to identity and belief systems, suggesting that changing minds requires understanding psychology beyond presenting scientific evidence.
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Sentinel Photo/DENNIS ROSENBERGERON DEFENSE — Matt Wilzbach, LEFT, as defense attorney Clarence Darrow; Donovan Garren, CENTER, as defendant John Scopes; Richard Sinclair, as defense attorney Dudley Field Malone, take part in Saturday’s reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial at Bryan Memorial Park in Salem. Sentinel Photo/DENNIS ROSENBERGERTRIAL ACTION — Matt Donoho, as William Jennings Bryan, makes an argument for the prosecution, as Jim Husk, …
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