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This Day in History –July 26h，1925
John Scopes

July 26, 1925, a worldwide news crush in Dayton, Tennessee during what is dubbed “The Monkey Trial“. Did we [-----1-----], as theorized by Charles Darwin or were we [-----2-----] created as written in Genesis, and [-----3-----] a new Tennessee law forbidding any teaching of evolution in public schools. Biology teacher John Thomas Scopes stands accused by a fundamentalist prosecution team headed up by orator William Jennings Bryant -- whose grandstanding makes him fall victim to a devastating [-----4-----] by ACLU defensive whiz Clarence Darrow. No matter - the judge rules that [-----5-----]. Did he Scopes teach Darwin? He did and so he was fined $100!
descend from primates divinely decreed by cross-examination any testimony validating evolution is invalid