Modern Era · North America · Culture
1925
Scopes Monkey Trial
July 10, 1925
In Dayton, Tennessee, a young biology teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution. William Jennings Bryan argued for the literal Bible. Clarence Darrow put Bryan himself on the stand and made him look a fool about Jonah and the whale. Scopes was fined a hundred dollars. American culture had found a permanent battlefield.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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