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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion [1925] In the summer of 1925 the Scopes trial pitted William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes into a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education.
Scopes Trial – AKA the Monkey Trial (Dayton, Tenn from July 10-21 in 1925)
"A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity. . ."
Alfred North Whitehead, 1925
Goal - to challenge the law! The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) needed to find a teacher to violate the law – enter John Scopes
Clarence Darrow (an agnostic) was hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes vs William Jennings Bryan (a fundamentalist) led the prosecution - these lawyers were the most famous in the nation …the trial will become a media circus
March 21, 1925 – Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signs the Butler bill into law. The new law is the first in the United States to ban the teaching of evolution.
The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922, having been signed into law by Tennessee governor Austin Peay. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.
May 25, 1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted by a grand jury for violating Tennessee's anti-evolution law.
July 13, 1925 – In an effort to have the Butler law declared unconstitutional, defense attorney Clarence Darrow defends Scopes pro bono.
July 21, 1925 The jury returns its guilty verdict after nine minutes of deliberation. Scopes is fined $100, which both Bryan and the ACLU offer to pay for him.
July 26, 1925 – Five days after the Scopes trial ends, Bryan dies in his sleep in Dayton.
Science is "Exhibit A" in a landmark trial on the teaching of evolution.Aired November 13, 2007 on PBS
Bryan College is a Christian liberal arts college in Dayton, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in the aftermath of the 1925 Scopes Trial to establish an institution of higher education that would teach from a Christian worldview.
During the Scopes Trial in 1925, William Jennings Bryan expressed the wish that a school might be established in Dayton, "to teach truth from a Biblical perspective".[1] Following his death on July 26, 1925, a national memorial association was formed to establish such an institution in Bryan’s honor. William Jennings Bryan University was chartered in 1930. Its stated purpose was to provide “for the purpose of establishing, conducting and perpetuating a university for the higher education of men and women under auspices distinctly Christian and spiritual, as a testimony to the supreme glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Divine inspiration and infallibility of the Bible,”[2] and its mission statement is "Educating Students to become Servants of Christ to make a Difference in Today's World." In 1958, it was designated William Jennings Bryan College, and the name was shortened to Bryan College in 1993.
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