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Article: Arguments through the ages; Darrow and Bryan at the Scopes trial: `a few more questions about the creation'.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2000
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Editor's note: In the summer of 1925, a young schoolteacher named John Scopes stood trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating his state's law against the teaching of evolution. Both the prosecution and defense teams brought in famous names to do combat in a case that was sure to be followed closely around the country: for the prosecution, William Jennings Bryan, who had run for president three times as a Democrat and had led a national effort to ban evolution theory from classrooms; for the defense, the celebrated Clarence Darrow, who the year before had represented Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in their infamous murder case. On the seventh day of the Scopes trial, the ...
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