What's killing the media goes all the way back to a famous 100-year-old culture wars trial: critic

What's killing the media goes all the way back to a famous 100-year-old culture wars trial: critic

One hundred years after the Scopes monkey trial author Amanda Opelt tells Religion News we’re still trying to win debates by abusing our opponent.July 10 will mark the anniversary of the prosecution of educator John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in public schools in violation of Tennessee’s Butler Act. This was a case defined by Baltimore Sun writer and atheist Henry Louis Mencken, who not only coined the term ‘Bible Belt’ and ‘monkey trial,’…

Leon Alligood on the Scopes Trial, 100 Years Later - Nashville Banner

This month marks 100 years since the Scopes “monkey” trial in Dayton, Tenn. The simple version is that a 24-year-old teacher had been charged with breaking a state law forbidding the teaching of evolution. But as national press descended on this small Tennessee town — at least 150 reporters and photographers in all — it soon became clear that this was bigger than a simple criminal trial. It was as if science itself stood accused. Writer, former …