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Takeaways from AP’s report on creationist beliefs 100 years after the Scopes trial

  • In 1925, John Scopes, a public schoolteacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was found guilty of violating a state law that prohibited the instruction of human evolution in schools.
  • The law prohibited teaching that man descended from animals and denied divine creation, and it was repealed in 1967 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar laws.
  • Recent polls indicate that between roughly one-sixth and one-third of Americans accept a belief in a young Earth as described literally in the Bible, a view promoted by attractions such as the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum.
  • The Ark Encounter in Kentucky is the largest freestanding timber-frame structure, stretching one and a half football fields, designed to argue the biblical story of Noah's ark is true.
  • The Scopes trial set a lasting template for culture wars over education and religion, as ongoing efforts to promote creationism in schools continue to alarm science educators.
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Takeaways from AP's report on creationist beliefs 100 years after the Scopes trial

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

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