Past Present Future

Politics on Trial: Darwin vs God / Darrow vs Bryan – the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial


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We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with the trial of the twentieth century: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925), which was meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between. What made it such a blockbuster showdown? Who really won and who really lost? And how are arguments from one hundred years ago still roiling American politics today? 

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