For example, some of these criticisms were famously asserted by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

* 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.

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

Clarence Darrow ( left ) and William Jennings Bryan chat in court during the Scopes Trial.

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.

Alleged is a romantic drama set around the Scopes Trial.

* Scopes Trial Home Page by Douglas Linder.

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 ".

* John Scopes ( August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970 ) – teacher charged with violating Tennessee's Butler Act and tried in a case popularly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial

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 ).

He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial.

The Arkansas statute was modeled after Tennessee's 1925 " Butler Act ", the subject of the well known Scopes Trial in 1925.

John Tate Raulston ( September 22, 1868 – July 11, 1956 ) was an American state judge in Rhea County, Tennessee, best known for presiding over the 1925 Scopes Trial, a famous creationism-evolution debate.

The court rejected this argument ( Scopes v. State, 154 Tenn. 105, 1927 ), holding that the determination of what laws cherished science was an issue for the legislature, not the judiciary:

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.

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.

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.

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

* Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes " Monkey Trial " Found in Smithsonian Archives

** Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the " Monkey Law " ( officially the Butler Act ; see the Scopes Trial ).

** Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

** 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 a Tennessee state law.

* July 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $ 100.

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.

* Dayton, Tennessee, site of the 1925 Scopes Trial

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.

Riley took the initiative in the Scopes Trial in Tennessee in 1925 to bring in famed politician William Jennings Bryan as an assistant to the local prosecutor.

Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes ( 1958 )

* FFRF v. Rhea County Schools (" Scopes II ")-This litigation occurred in the same place as the famous Scopes Trial, hence the nickname Scopes II.

* Scopes v. State-1925

* 1900 – John T. Scopes, American teacher ( d. 1970 )

The teacher at the center of proceedings, John Scopes | John Thomas Scopes.

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

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.

However, John R. Neal, a law school professor from Knoxville, announced that he would act as Scopes ' attorney whether Scopes liked it or not, and he became the nominal head of the defense team.

John Thomas Scopes ( August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970 ) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tenneissee schools.

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In 1960 he played the role of Bertram Cates ( modelled on John Thomas Scopes, of " Monkey Trial " fame ) in the film version of Inherit the Wind.

Defended by attorney Clarence Darrow, of the Scopes Monkey Trial fame, Fortescue, Thalia's husband Thomas Massie, and two Navy sailors were eventually tried and convicted of manslaughter in the death of Kahahawai.

In 1925 he was adviser on the Bible to Clarence Darrow in his defense of John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher who was charged with teaching evolution in his classes.