how our earth and surroundings have adapted with us through out years. My interest in evolution since my first exposure to it in Elementary has lead to read more about and want to study it in a similar field. There for a court ruling like The Scopes trial in 1925 where they banned the teaching of evolution to kids weere to have been continued and not changed then maybe I or many others would not have been introduced to evolution. Without evolution the continued studies of genetics and medicine would
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wind‚ was made to portray the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial." The original 1960 version of this movie have been shown in classrooms across the nation‚ and is said to be historical. It has influenced many people against evolution. From just seeing the movie‚ anyone can conclude that religious fundamentalist are unreasonable‚ while evolutionist are rational thinkers. In the discussion below‚ several parts of the movie are compared with the transcipt of the trial. It became a national event‚ covered
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Scopes Trial Opening Statement. We the defense‚ believe our client is innocent. Why you might ask‚ becuase no law was ever broken.According to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution‚ part of the Bill of Rights‚ prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion and what does this The Butler Act do? It outlawed in state-funded schools‚ including universities‚ the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible
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#3 In 1925 religion and scientific theory collided in a courtroom. John Scopes‚ a school biology teacher‚ deliberately violated the state’s anti-evolutionism statute. The fundamentalists won their case in court. The Tennessee state prosecutor won a conviction against Scopes on the grounds that the legislature had the right to determine what was taught in public schools within the state. The key question during the trial: Should religious beliefs influence public education in a nation where church
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There are many debates in the United States that have been ongoing for decades‚ and some for even centuries. Some of these issues are in relation to science‚ religion‚ and some are even a combination of the two. Film and other media outlets have commonly been used to address these types of issues ever since these outlets were started. In the film Dracula‚ directed by Tod Browning in 1931‚ many controversial issues of the 1920s and 1930s including science‚ superstition‚ religion‚ and xenophobia
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and homosexuals and there were up to 5 million members in 1920 showing America was a very prejudiced and intolerant society. The Scopes trial of 1925 showed America to be an intolerant society as it showed the differences between old american values and modern values and because of this John Scopes has his freedom of speech taken away from him as he was out on trial row his teachings of Charles Darwin’s Origen of Species. This showed America to be a rather intolerant society because of religious
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revolution swept the nation. In the 1920s‚ the boom in technology‚ coupled with cultural and social developments led to tensions between the old and new. The manifestation of these conflicting ideals was a focal point of the Election of 1920 and Scopes Monkey Trial. The reform movements and Woodrow Wilson’s staunch moral legislation preceding the 1920s were a source of exhaustion for the American public. The American public was disillusioned with the failed League of Nations‚ and quickly embraced the
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science became prevalent‚ most notably in the Scopes Monkey Trial during the 1920s. Following Darwin’s Theory of Evolution‚ many‚ including teacher John Scopes‚ wanted to teach this scientifically proven explanation for human development in schools. However‚ a great controversy was sparked in Tennessee when the fundamentalist Board of Education refused to teach anything but the story of Adam and Eve. The outcome of the trial found Scopes guilty. This trial represented the greater question of whether
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AP US History Mrs. Norris 6th hour Sample DBQ Response to demonstrate document integration Prompt The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested The firestorm of the Great War revealed an American society rife with conflict and opposing values. Americans reacted to the legacy of the war with new political doctrines‚ contentious
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should never be able to discuss religious topics because it interferes with the First Amendment. Although‚ both evolutionism and creationism are theories‚ evolution should always be taught mainly while creationism only mentioned. In the Scopes trial‚ in 1928‚ the court decided that evolutionism should be banned from the school curriculum but creationism should be taught. However‚ in 1968 in Epperson v. Arkansas‚ Susan Epperson taught evolution in science class‚ this directly violated a statute
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