The resulting trial was made famous almost immediately as a contest between—take your pick—Darwin and the Bible; science and religion; modernism and traditionalism; the educated and the uneducated; ...

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools. What ...

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...

By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Dayton’s 1925 Strawberry Festival. It set no legal precedent, led to no repeal of the Butler Act, and ...

One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...

One hundred years ago this month was a court case that was known as "the trial of the century," at least until the trial of O.J. Simpson. In July 1925, hundreds of reporters descended on the small, ...

Scopes Trial Play & Festivities in July. Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation President Rick Dye announced that the play “Destiny in Dayton,” which tells the story of the 1925 Scopes Trial, will have ...

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...