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John Thomas Scopes 'Religion-Fundamentalism'
Religion- fundamentalism, the scopes trial notes-----Tiffany Blincoe

picture C.Fundamentalism: 3.strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives.

Picture A. The scopes trial- A high school teacher by the name of John Thomas Scopes was charged and fined because he had started teaching his students of evolution theory. By teaching evolution theory, the idea that mankind had descended from apes and evolved throughout time, he was therefore denying the biblical stories of creationism. It doesn’t seem like a big deal at all except that at this time the Butlers Act was taking place which forbid exactly was Mr. scopes taught.
As the trial went on, many of his student willfully
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