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The Scopes Trial Is Still With Us
In December of 1924, a Tennessee state representative—a tobacco and corn farmer named John Washington Butler—sat down before the fireplace in his Macon County home and wrote a 197-word bill that changed history. The bill, which was signed into law by the state’s governor ninety-nine years ago this spring, was known as the Butler Act. The act made it illegal for the state’s publicly funded schools and universities to teach “any version of man’s origins that differed from that of the Bible and to teach, instead, that man had descended from a lower order of animals.” Other states had written anti-evolution laws, but it was the Butler Act that drew the attention of the newly formed Ameri

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