The Scopes Monkey Trial — 100 Years Later

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There was a trial in July 1925, formally "The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes." It is often informally known as the "Scopes Monkey Trial." Many people have seen the play or movie Inherit the Wind, which is treated like a documentary but is almost entirely fictional. Alleged is more accurate.

Since this is the 100-year anniversary of this significant event in American society and education, many articles and videos are being produced. I expect to post more than just the two for today. The entire trial was a setup by the American Civil Liberties Union.

It is 100 years since the Scopes Monkey Trial, which put God on trial. Since then, the seeds it planted bear bitter fruit through the decades.
Scopes Trial day 7 as watercolor painting, original PD, modified at DeepAI
Mr. Scopes was in trouble for breaking state law by teaching evolution. He was a substitute teacher and used a biology textbook that was approved by the state. He was arrested and put on trial in something that should have been very quick, but it turned into a circus: God was in the dock. Although he was found guilty, the repercussions of the trial had negative consequences, including the hypocrisy of American Supreme Court justices over the years. Indeed, atheism, secular humanism, and Darwinism are not only religions, they are protected by secularists! 
Since that 1925 Scopes Trial, 100 years have passed and several generations of judicially imposed public secularism have given dominance to moral relativism, notwithstanding America’s national motto of “In God We Trust.”

Shockingly, only about 5% of Americans today possess a consistently biblical worldview according to the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. Public schools today reflect that low number. But ironically, the first public education law in America arose in 1647 and was called the Old Deluder Satan Act. This law wasn’t to silence biblical teaching in schools—quite the opposite.

To read the entire article, see "100 Years After the Scopes Trial: A Judge Reviews." Be sure to come back for the next (brief) article!

Some Christians want evolution censored so they can protect their children, but they will learn about it anyway. It's best to teach them the truth about it rather than let them get brainwashed with sanitized and often dishonest stories. Also, evolution is a scientific concept despite being propped up with bad science and fraud, and many folks feel that science should not be censored. To be blunt, the Scopes Trial brought censorship against evolution into the spotlight.

Now things are going the other way. Evolutionary propaganda infests the secular science industry and educational systems, but it is illegal to require "balanced treatment" where creation science and evolution are both taught. (Most creation science organizations as well as Intelligent Design folks dislike that idea. Also, a disbelieving teacher is unlikely to represent challenges to evolution accurately.) Scientific evidence against evolution is streng verboten. For that matter, an activist judge gained praise from atheists and other evolutionists because of his ruling at the Dover trial.

From the Irony Board: Vanderbilt University is having a symposium on the Scopes Trial. The Intelligent Design people are not allowed, and I seriously doubt that biblical creation scientists are going to be there, either.

Casey Luskin writes at The Daily Wire:

This month, America commemorates the 100th anniversary of a landmark cultural event that taught us about the dangers of censorship. July 1925 witnessed the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” where a Dayton, Tennessee, public school teacher was put on trial for violating a state law that prohibited teaching human evolution.


The teaching of scientific ideas should never be banned, much less criminalized. We like to think of censorship as something from the dark ages of the past, before our modern enlightened era vanquished intellectual intolerance. But 100 years after Scopes, we have what the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia once called “Scopes-in-reverse,” where scientists and scholars face reprisals if they challenge neo-Darwinian evolution.

Indeed so. Dr. Luskin gives a sampling of cases from the past two decades where scientists met with harsh consequences for failing to support the orthodox evolutionary Narrative. I might have added what happened to evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg at the Smithsonian after he dared to edit a peer-reviewed journal article in a technical biology journal. The article by Stephen Meyer presented evidence for intelligent design in the Cambrian explosion. For this offense — merely editing a pro-ID article — Dr. Sternberg was hounded out of his position.

The rest can be found at "One Hundred Years After Scopes, It’s 'Scopes-in-Reverse'"