Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools. What ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — People from far and wide traveled here for the Scopes Trial Centennial Celebration, which continued Wednesday with the first day of the Scopes Symposium, a series of lectures spanning ...

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This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my wife, Alice, and I stopped at Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. We ...

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...

One hundred years ago this month was a court case that was known as "the trial of the century," at least until the trial of O.J. Simpson. In July 1925, hundreds of reporters descended on the small, ...

One hundred years ago, in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was underway, with the battle for children’s public education in the balance. This case has become infamous in American legal ...

Dayton, Tennessee, business leaders in 1925 recognized that a hot-button trial could put their small town on the map. They recruited teacher John Thomas Scopes to challenge the state's Butler Act, in ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...