"Provides comprehensive information on the Scopes trial, evolution, fundamentalism, and American education and the differing perspectives accompanying them"--Provided by publisher.
Describes the historic 1925 trial in which a teacher was accused of violating state law by teaching evolution, discussing key figures in the court case, the final judgment, and the debate over teaching evolution in U.S. schools.
In 1925 John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution to his high school biology class in Dayton, Tennessee. In a legal battle between conventional and contemporary beliefs, the "trial of the century" unfolded. In The Scopes Trial: Faith, Science, and American Education, explore the clash between supporters and opponents of the teaching of human evolution and their conflicting perspectives.
