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Dayton, Tennessee is a town of about 7,000 people in Southeast Tennessee. The town was the site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, pitting religion vs. science in public schools. A group of ...

State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Brenda Wineapple, whose new book "Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation" recounts the 1925 Scopes Monkey ...

Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution. Less well known are its origins. As historian Edward J.

DAYTON, Tenn. - In 1925, two of America's most renowned figures faced off in the southeast Tennessee town of Dayton to debate a burning issue - whether man evolved over millions of years or was ...

One of the most publicized trials in U.S. History was over a high school biology teacher who dared teach his students about Charles Darwin’s theory of Evolution. What came to be called the Scopes ...

DAYTON, Tennessee — Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to Rhea County high school class. It'd been pretty much ...

John Thomas Scopes, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law, launching the so-called “Monkey Trial” on July 10, 1925.

How monumental was the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn.? “It was the most famous event that the world was aware of at the time,” said Richard Baird, whose New Fortune Theatre Company is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star attorneys of the Scopes trial: Clarence Darrow, left, for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.