Hannover Jahrgang 11 * * 1.Semester * * * * * * * * FACHARBEIT * * * im Leistungskurs Englisch * * * * * * * The Scopes Trail and its heritage – * * the influence of fundamental Christian ideology * * on public life in the US * * * * * * * * * * * * Verfasser: Moritz Dittmar * * Kursleiter:
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MONKEY VS MOSES Dayton‚ Tennessee. High school football coach and substitute science teacher‚ John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act. The jury did not hear the defense testimony‚ as the judge declared that all of the defense testimony on the Bible was irrelevant‚ and the jury should not be allowed to hear it. The judge declared that the Bible in question was the official Bible of the State of Tennessee‚ and that this was the King James Version. The defense attorney‚ Clarence
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The relationship between religion and science has always been complicated‚ with many scholars having very separate ideas. There are three ways to look at this relationship; Some scholars and religious groups‚ such as ultra Darwinist Richard Dawkins and literalist Christians believe in what has come to be known as the conflict model‚ when one believes that one dominates the other. The convergence model argues that science and religion work together harmoniously‚ the distinct model argues that science
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Mock Trial was a great experience for me since it was my first time doing it in my life. My role was an officer called‚ Officer Low. Officer Low has been on the local police force for eight and a half years. I think my role was not easy because I had to memorize all my lines in order to answer the lawyer’s question. Also‚ I had to know where the offender Wally Brogue was standing and where the radio‚ beer and marijuana were on the diagram of David Benning’s and Sara Volsky’s apartment. Plus‚ I had
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one hand‚ William Jennings Bryan‚ three-time presidential candidate‚ argued for the prosecution. The narrow legal argument offered by the prosecution was that Scopes’ guilt was a matter of incontestable fact and logic: The state had outlawed the teaching of evolution‚ Scopes admitted publicly that he had taught evolution‚ therefore Scopes was guilty. Also‚ after the World War I.‚ Bryan proposed that the Darwinism (he‚ actually‚ meant Social Darwinism) was behind excessive militarism and imperialism
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strong in the American South. The “Scopes Trial” was held in Dayton‚ Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925. In there was a big jury to decide the fate of John Scopes who was 24. John Scopes was a high school biology teacher and part time football coach who was charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution. The guilt or innocence of John Scopes‚ and the constitutionality of Tennessee anti evolution statute‚ mattered a little. The whole point of this trial is emerged through its interpretation
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Creationism or Evolution? The Dilemma Remains Since the advent of philosophical thought‚ man has questioned the genesis of our existence. Before the enlightenment‚ society was accepting of a deity-based existence as the answer to all of life’s questions. In this belief‚ God created the world and everything in it in seven days. It wasn’t until Darwin’s Origin of Species became popular among many scholars that people began to change their perspectives on the miracles of life. Before the discovery
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claimed that being pregnant was a gift from god and you should cherish the moment. The idea of Evolution and particularly the teaching of it in public schools was a big issue for many in the roaring twenties. A famous case of this was the Scopes monkey trial‚ formerly known as The State of
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This Cynical Journalist Inherit the Wind is an intense drama written by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence based on the John Scopes trial of 1925. In this story‚ Bert Cates is put on trial for going against the Tennessee law prohibiting the Evolutionary theory of the creation of mankind being taught in schools. With the trial being held in Hillsboro‚ most of the people at the event were against Bert Cates with it being so unorthodox. Some people though‚ shared Bert Cates’s logic. E.K. Hornbeck‚ a
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John Scopes‚ a substitute high school teacher in Tennessee‚ was accused of violating the state’s Butler Act‚ which stated that the teaching of human evolution was forbidden in any state-funded school. During the trial‚ Scopes held his own‚ and was questioned on only biblical stories of God‚ rather than what seemed reasonable to him‚ which was Darwinism. Unable to fight back‚ Scopes was fined $100.00‚ but rather than backing down from the trial in the beginning‚ Mr. John Scopes fought fire
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