John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee 's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]

2025年1月13日 · Scopes Trial, also called the ‘Monkey Trial,’ highly publicized trial that took place July 10–21, 1925, during which a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

2017年11月17日 · The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had...

2015年5月25日 · In 1925, John T. Scopes—the defendant in the famous “Monkey Trial”—was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in his high school science class.

2023年7月30日 · The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

2009年11月24日 · July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a...

2 天之前 · Most know the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial as a battle between scientific study and religious establishment. In 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee, John Scopes was tried for teaching Darwinism, a breach of the Butler Act which forbade any material contrary to Bible scripture. Though Scopes lost, the ...

2010年9月1日 · John Scopes, a young popular high school science teacher, agreed to stand as defendant in a test case to challenge the law. He was arrested on May 7, 1925, and charged with teaching the theory of evolution.

Eighty years ago, in July 1925, the mixture of religion, science and the public schools caught fire in Dayton, Tenn. The Scopes trial — or "Monkey Trial," as it was called — dominated...

2024年5月26日 · The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it came to be known, pitted the teaching of Charles Darwin‘s theory of evolution against the deeply held religious beliefs of the time. The trial‘s outcome and its enduring legacy continue to shape the debate over science education in the United States nearly a century later.