John Thomas Scopes was a high school biology teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in 1925. In the famous Scopes Trail he was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial represents the fight between the creation vs. evolution, led by the fundamentalists and the creationists.
no it does not
evolution
in 1925, he broke Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of Darwinism to his students. *back then, the state and religion wasn't separated*
The Butler Act, enacted in Tennessee in 1925, specifically prohibited the teaching of any theory that denied the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, which effectively outlawed the teaching of evolution in public schools. This law was famously challenged in the Scopes Monkey Trial, where teacher John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution. The act was a significant moment in the debate over science and religion in education. Ultimately, while it targeted the teaching of evolution, it did not outright ban the concept of creationism itself.
In the 1920's the Fundamentalists gained attention for their belief in the repeal of the theory of evolution. There were movements banning the teaching of evolution in the classroom. Fundamentalists led this movement.
They did not want students to learn the theory of evolution in school.
In Religion a fundamentalist believes in a literal interpretation (as he understands it) of what he reads, teaching evolution
I think it was 1987 when the Supreme Court ruled that no state could block the teaching of evolution and that creationism was religion and violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
alcohol and the theory of evolution
Alcohol and the theory of evolution
John Thomas Scopes was a high school biology teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in 1925. In the famous Scopes Trail he was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial represents the fight between the creation vs. evolution, led by the fundamentalists and the creationists.
Fundamentalists are very cohesive and organized political groups. They usually oppose equal rights for women and homosexuals, oppose scientific family planning, the teaching of evolution in schools, and seek governmental support/establishment of religion. In the U.S. they support militarism, the arm race, anti-communism and a pro-Zionist establishment of Israel as part of apocalyptic ideology.
Because they feel it disagrees with a literal interpretation of Genesis......they will say that evolution has no scientific evidence to support it and try to come up with arguments against it, but the bottom line is they just don't WANT to believe it, and so reject it at face value.
The law prohibiting the teaching of evolution was upheld
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
Fundamentalists were Protestant believers who strongly resisted liberal Protestantism's attempts to adapt doctrines to Darwinian evolution and biblical criticism. They believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible and rejected the idea of evolution and critical scholarship of the Bible.