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BreakPoint Commentaries
http://www.pfm.org

What’s the Matter with Darwinists?
The Truth about the Scopes Trial
May 20, 2005

[Excerpt]
"...These myths were exposed a few years ago when a
Pulitzer Prize-winning book took on the vicious fictions
perpetrated by this motion picture. The book is called
Summer for the Gods, and the author is Edward Larson, a
history professor at the University of Georgia and a
Christian. Larson says that Inherit the Wind has become a
'formative myth' that has all but replaced the actual trial
in the nation’s memory."

Does he also mention that the whole thing was a set-up by
the city fathers of Dayton, TN, as a publicity stunt?

Of course, none of this really matters, as evolutionary biology
doesn't depend on the accuracy of some book, or a Hollywood
movie, for its validity.

In the real Scopes Trial of 1925, Clarence Darrow and the ACLU argued
that the law that forbade the teaching of any aspect of evolution, was
unconstitutional because it benefitted a particular religious group,
and so violates the First Amendment. Eight scholarly-looking people
came in to give evidence for evolution, but scientists today don't use
the evidence that those eight people used. The evidence used in the
trial was poor.

William Jennings Bryan, on the other hand, said the problem with
evolution is that it excuses crime. One can say it's just how they
were born and how their ancestors were, and so escape responsibility
for their crime.

Darrow and the ACLU said that the bible does not belong in science, and
said flat-out that miracles are unreasonable and untrue.

Bryan said that the word "day" in the Bible does not mean a 24-hour
period, but rather a period of time. In the movie, he was convinced of
this, but in real life, Bryan said this from the beginning, did not
need to be convinced of it.

Bryan won, and Scopes was fined.

The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the verdict though because it
said the jury should have determined Scopes' fine, not the judge.

In 1968, the US Supreme Court ruled in Epperson v Arkansas that a ban
on teaching evolution does benefit a particular religious group, and so
violates the First Amendment.









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In the real Scopes Trial of 1925, Clarence Darrow and the ACLU argued
that the law that forbade the teaching of any aspect of evolution, was
unconstitutional because it benefitted a particular religious group,
and so violates the First Amendment. Eight scholarly-looking people
came in to give evidence for evolution, but scientists today don't use
the evidence that those eight people used.

The evidence used in the trial was poor.

William Jennings Bryan, on the other hand, said the problem with
evolution is that it excuses crime. One can say it's just how they
were born and how their ancestors were, and so escape responsibility
for their crime.

Darrow and the ACLU said that the bible does not belong in science,

and said flat-out that miracles are unreasonable and untrue.

Bryan said that the word "day" in the Bible does not mean a 24-hour
period, but rather a period of time. In the movie, he was convinced of
this, but in real life, Bryan said this from the beginning, did not
need to be convinced of it.

Bryan won,

and Scopes was fined.

In the real Scopes Trial of 1925, Clarence Darrow and the ACLU argued
that the law that forbade the teaching of any aspect of evolution, was
unconstitutional because it benefitted a particular religious group,
and so violates the First Amendment. Eight scholarly-looking people
came in to give evidence for evolution, but scientists today don't use
the evidence that those eight people used. The evidence used in the
trial was poor.

William Jennings Bryan, on the other hand, said the problem with
evolution is that it excuses crime. One can say it's just how they
were born and how their ancestors were, and so escape responsibility
for their crime.

Darrow and the ACLU said that the bible does not belong in science, and
said flat-out that miracles are unreasonable and untrue.

Bryan said that the word "day" in the Bible does not mean a 24-hour
period, but rather a period of time. In the movie, he was convinced of
this, but in real life, Bryan said this from the beginning, did not
need to be convinced of it.

Bryan won, and Scopes was fined.

The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the verdict though because it
said the jury should have determined Scopes' fine, not the judge.

In 1968, the US Supreme Court ruled in Epperson v Arkansas that a ban
on teaching evolution does benefit a particular religious group, and so
violates the First Amendment.