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The result was the famous Scopes Trial (the so-called “Monkey Trial”) of 1925, in which a high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was convicted of unlawfully teaching the theory of evolution (he was later acquitted on a technicality). Creationism has largely been promulgated by conservative ...
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* In 1914, the American Book Company published a high school textbook entitled A Civic Biology that became the best-selling biology textbook in the United States and the subject of the famous Scopes“monkey trial.”[45] [46] In the section on evolution, it claims: At the present time ther...