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Article: Evolution and friendship.(astronomy and biology teaching)
- Article from:
- Journal of College Science Teaching
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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In 1925, Williams Jennings Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska and a former Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spent two agonizing weeks during a hot Tennessee summer defending his religious faith. The passions of the trial crushed his health, and he died one month later. Bryan was a gifted public speaker, a champion of liberal causes, and a defender of farmers. He also believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Bryan was a prosecutor of high school teacher John Scopes. Scopes had violated Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution. Chief defender of Scopes was the finest criminal-defense attorney our country has ever produced, ...