Scopes Monkey Trial begins, 83 years ago today
Scopes Monkey Trial begins, 83 years ago today
On July 10, 1925, the Scopes trial -- or "Monkey Trial," as it was called -- began with jury selection. The trial lasted just a week but the questions it raised are as divisive now as they were back then. picked by mitzuzake 2 months ago
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 tigerton...
2 months ago
We've come a long way from such an archaic society in which religion would attempt to undermine science in public education.

Oh, wait...
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 stinkobi...
2 months ago
progress can be slow
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 chinook
2 months ago
Bryan declares in one address that "[i]t is better to trust in the Rock of Ages, than to know the age of the rocks; blah blah blah."
He'd make a terrible geologist.
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 T1000
2 months ago
Why can't people just stay in line? We can't have differing opinions in today's modern world.
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 mitzuzak...
2 months ago
« stinkobinko : progress can be slow
And the opposite of progress is, of course, congress...
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 lilyang
2 months ago
No monkeying around with science, you knucklewalkers!!
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 fentwin
2 months ago
Oneof my favorite movies is "Inherit the Wind".
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