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Article: Scopes Revisited // Is secular humanism a religion?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 13, 1986
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Is there a God? Are we descended from apes? Is secular
humanism a religion? Only the first of these questions has yet to be
asked in an American court, though in a sue-happy society where every
question (preferably unanswerable) must be settled by a jury of
peers, don't count on it for long. A trial on the second question,
about the fatherhood of apes, provided entertainment for a Tennessee
summer in 1925. A trial on the third question, secular humanism, is
today's entertainment.
Scopes Revisited, now being heard in an Alabama court, is being
put on by a judge with an agenda, Brevard Hand. The Supreme Court
overturned his earlier ruling permitting silent prayer in public
schools. His ...