The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Even today, the subject of evolution is controversial in some schools. In the 1920s it was even more so. Evolution was considered so destructive to traditional, Christian values, that in 1925, the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act. This law made it illegal...
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