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If Clarence Darrow is remembered today it is for defending high-school teacher John Scopes in the controversial 1925 "Monkey Trial," where he did theatrical battle against the prosecution's star witness, William Jennings Bryan, and a Tennessee state law that made it a crime to teach the theory of evolution.
A Man in Search of a Lost Cause Carl Rollyson 2011
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However, more than 75 years after the trial of State of Tennessee v John Scopes and despite incredible advances in biology, many public school boards strive to eliminate the teaching of evolution from the curriculum.
Jeff Schweitzer: When Faith Trumps Reason: the Curse of Scientific Illiteracy 2010
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Probably most people today remember Bryan as the bible-thumping Creationist who helped prosecute John Scopes in the famous "monkey trial" of 1925.
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He defended the affluent brilliant Chicago teens Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the cold blooded murder of John Scopes to prove they could get away with a killing.
The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow-Donald McRae « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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Yes, schoolteacher John Scopes was prosecuted in the 1920s by the state of Tennessee for teaching evolution, but the textbook he used was filled with racist pseudo-science.
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However, more than 75 years after the trial of State of Tennessee v John Scopes and despite incredible advances in biology, many public school boards strive to eliminate the teaching of evolution from the curriculum.
Jeff Schweitzer: Stimulus Package and Scientific Illiteracy 2009
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And his lawyer, in his opening statements, managed to compared Mr. Churchill to Galileo, who was of course persecuted for speaking the truth to power, and also to John Scopes, who dared to each evolution in the schools.
Labor Pains 2009
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And it boggles the mind that nearly two centuries after Darwin, and 80 years after John Scopes was put on trial, this country is still debating the validity of evolution.
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The assault on the teaching of evolution: We thought this was settled 79 years ago at the 1925 trial of a high-school biology teacher in Tennessee, when celebrated defense attorney Clarence Darrow represented John Scopes in the legendary Scopes "monkey trial."
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The jury originally returned a guilty verdict against Darrow's client, John Scopes.
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