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July of 1925 saw the most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Although the p ....

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.... 600-year-old precedent of geocentricism. This was looked upon as an act of heresy, and Galileo was nearly burned at the stake. Thus, when a schoolteacher in the south decided to stray from the norm by teaching a new and controversial theory of evolution, it was no surprise that there was considerable backlash from religious groups. The supporters of literal interpretation of the Bible were alarmed at Darwin’s theories because it showed humans in an unfavorable light. Suggesting that all life forms evolved from more primitive beings appeared to lower the significance of man in the greater scheme of things. This was considered an attack not o ....