The group asked Scopes to plead guilty to teaching the theory of evolution.

When asked about the test case, Scopes was initially reluctant to get involved, but after some discussion he told the group gathered in Robinson's Drugstore, " If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial.

Scopes are simple strings and are used to group services, comparable to the network neighborhood in other systems.

During the Scopes Trial itself, a report in The New York Times said " After flocking to view the monkeys, Dayton has decided that it was not man who evolved from the anthropoid, but the anthropoid which devolved from man ; and it points now at the two chimpanzees and the " missing link " to prove the assertion ".

Scopes mentioned that while he couldn't remember whether he had actually taught evolution in class, he had, however, gone through the evolution chart and chapter with the class.

Judge John T. Raulston accelerated the convening of the grand jury and "... all but instructed the grand jury to indict Scopes, despite the meager evidence against him and the widely reported stories questioning whether the willing defendant had ever taught evolution in the classroom.

" Scopes was charged with having taught from the chapter on evolution to an April 24, 1925, high-school class in violation of the Butler Act and nominally arrested, though he was never actually detained.

The Tennessee Butler Act was tested in the Scopes Trial of 1925, and continued in effect with the result that evolution was not taught in many schools.

The Christian right has not supported the teaching of evolution in the past, but it does not have the ability to stop it being taught in public schools as was done during the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in which a science teacher went on trial for teaching about the subject of evolution in a public school.

The Scopes Trial of 1925 was a Tennessee court case that tested a state law which forbade the teaching of " any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called " Monkey Trial " begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $ 100.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

Scopes, who had substituted for the regular biology teacher, was charged on May 5, 1925, with teaching evolution from a chapter in Civic Biology, a textbook by George William Hunter, that described the theory of evolution.

Teaching of evolution was effectively barred from United States public school curricula by the outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial, but in the 1960s the National Defense Education Act led to Biological Sciences Curriculum Study reintroducing teaching of evolution.

* The Scopes Trial ( 1925 ), which declared that John T. Scopes had violated the law by teaching evolution in schools, creating tension between the competing theories of creationism and evolution.

After the trial Scopes admitted to reporter William Kinsey Hutchinson " I didn't violate the law ," ( DeCamp p. 435 ) explaining that he had skipped the evolution lesson and his lawyers had coached his students to go on the stand ; the Dayton businessmen had assumed he had violated the law.

Anticipating that Scopes would be found guilty, the press fitted the defendant for martyrdom and created an onslaught of ridicule.

After Raulston ruled against the admission of scientific testimony, Mencken left Dayton, declaring in his last dispatch, " All that remains of the great cause of the State of Tennessee against the infidel Scopes is the formal business of bumping off the defendant.

Scopes ' involvement in the so-called Monkey Trial came about after the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) announced that it would finance a test case challenging the confstitutionality of the Butler Act if they could find a Tennessee teacher willing to act as a defendant.

The prosecution team, led by Tom Stewart, included brothers Herbert Hicks and Sue K. Hicks, Wallace Haggard, father and son pairings Ben and J. Gordon McKenzie and William Jennings Bryan and William Jennings Bryan Jr. Bryan had spoken at Scopes ' high school commencement and remembered the defendant laughing while he was giving the address to the graduating class six years earlier.

Except for the willingness of William Jennings Bryan to be cross-examined by Clarence Darrow, Stewart's positions controlled the trial and the Scopes defense had no recourse but to ask the jury to convict the defendant so the case could be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court ( which overturned the conviction on a legal technicality but upheld the constitutionality of the Butler Act ).

" The men then summoned 24-year-old John T. Scopes, a Dayton high school science and math teacher.

In response, the American Civil Liberties Union financed a test case in which John Scopes, a Tennessee high school science teacher, agreed to be tried for violating the Act.

The original prosecutors were Herbert E. and Sue K. Hicks, two brothers who were local attorneys and friends of Scopes, but the prosecution would be ultimately led by Tom Stewart, a graduate of Cumberland School of Law, who later became a U. S. Senator.

It was not until the 1960s that the Scopes trial began to be mentioned in the history textbooks of American high schools and colleges, usually as an example of the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists, and often in sections that also talked about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.

The Scopes Trial was one of the first to be referred to as the Trial of the century.

In a 3-1 decision written by Chief Justice Grafton Green the Butler Act was held to be constitutional, but overturned Scopes ' conviction on a technicality: the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.

Though William Jennings Bryan famously testified to some questions about Biblical creation in the 1925 Scopes v. State trial, that Court, like this one, was asked only to judge whether or not teachings about human evolution could be prohibited in the public schools.

" He considered defining the days in Genesis 1 to be twenty-four hours to be a pro-evolution straw man argument to make attacking creationists easier, and admitted at Scopes that the world was far older than six thousand years, and that the days of creation were probably longer than twenty-four hours each.

In the fall of 1925 — shortly after the Scopes Trial — Jones and his wife were driving in south Florida talking about the need for an orthodox Christian college as an alternative to what he perceived to be loss of both state and denominational colleges to secularism.

During the Scopes Trial in 1925, William Jennings Bryan expressed the wish that a school might be established in Dayton, " to teach truth from a Biblical perspective ".

During the Scopes Trial when the judge was considering letting scientists testify for the defense, William Jennings Bryan wired Straton to come to Dayton, Tennessee to be a rebuttal witness.

Scopes became an increasingly willing participant, even incriminating himself and urging students to testify against him.

It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the " Monkey Trial " of " the infidel Scopes.

Edwards ( 2000 ) contradicts the conventional view that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie Inherit the Wind and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

Nearly all these efforts were rejected, but Mississippi and Arkansas did put anti-evolution laws on the books after the Scopes trial that would outlive the Butler Act.

The Scopes trial had both short and long term effects in the teaching of science in schools in the United States.

Though the ACLU had taken on the trial as a cause, in the wake of Scopes ’ conviction, they were unable to find any volunteers to take on the Butler law and by 1932, the ACLU gave up.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

Twenty-two telegraphers sent out 165, 000 words per day on the trial over thousands of miles of telegraph wires hung for the purpose ; more words were transmitted to Britain about the Scopes trial than for any previous American event.

At the site of the trial, the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, a $ 1-million restoration project was completed in 1979, which restored the second-floor courtroom to its original appearance during the Scopes trial.

The Scopes trial did not appear in the Encyclopædia Britannica until 1957, when its inclusion was spurred by the successful run of Inherit the Wind on Broadway, which was mentioned in the citation.

* Text of the Closing Statement of William Jennings Bryan at the trial of John Scopes, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925

Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the " Monkey Trial ".

However Edwards ( 2000 ) challenges the consensus view among scholars that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie " Inherit the Wind " and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

The trial participants included William Jennings Bryan in the role of prosecutor and Clarence Darrow as John T. Scopes ' defense counsel.

On July 26, 1925, he drove from Chattanooga to Dayton to attend a church service, ate a meal, and died ( the result of diabetes and fatigue ) in his sleep that afternoon — just five days after the Scopes trial ended.

Clarence Seward Darrow ( April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938 ) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert " Bobby " Franks ( 1924 ) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes " Monkey " Trial ( 1925 ), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan ( statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate ).

After the trial, Scopes accepted a scholarship for graduate study in geology at the University of Chicago.

In this manner, flappers were an artifact of larger social changes — women were able to vote in the United States in 1920, and religious society had been rocked by the Scopes trial.