Monkey Trial: An All Out Dual Between Science and Religion (film)

Anyone who wants to understand why religion and science continue to clash so fiercely in American culture would do well to turn back the clock to 1925. That was the year a high school teacher named John Scopes was arrested for violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution. The story began in a New York office where the secretary of a struggling organization called the ACLU noticed a small headline. It announced new legislation in Tennessee banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. ACLU President Roger Baldwin believed the law violated a teacher's right of free speech. Responding to a newspaper ad, local citizens in Dayton, Tennessee volunteered one of their own teachers — tall, shy John Scopes — for a test case.

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