I didn’t have time to read all of the posts here but I read a book on the Scopes trial and yes, Scopes was the MAN who was on trial not evolution. However, It was the first radio broadcasted trial in American history and a large percentage of America was listening in because they wanted to hear the debate between religion and evolution not scopes v. the state. Scopes was found guilty before the first appeal. It then very much turned into a debate over weather or not evolution was combatable with religion and they found that it was in the end (on reason being, because religion is open to interpretation).

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