Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edward Larson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science ...
In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial rocked the nation. The following is an excerpt from Keeping the Faith: God, ...
The 100th anniversary is approaching of the law under which John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted and convicted in Dayton, Tennessee, in the celebrated “monkey trial.” Enacted on March 21, 1925, the ...
A century after the infamous trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness. In the sweltering summer of 1925, crowds flocked to the small town of Dayton, ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...
Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...