scopes

As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.

Ironic that the city of Dayton, Tenn., was the site of the Scopes trial, something one feels the current Dayton, Wash., anti-library protesters would approve of.

One hourlong episode will focus on the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a science teacher was prosecuted for informing students about Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Scopes had his day in court and although he was found guilty and fined $100, Tennessee did not come out of the trial unscathed.

Public education has long been a battlefield in the U.S., from the Scopes trial to desegregation to climate change.