USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are two main reasons that biological evolution is mandated in science educations standards. First, it is the fundamental, unifying theory that underlies all the life sciences. It has formed the basis of productive and active research for over 140 years and continues to do so.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Glenn, who declared as a 77-year-old in a news conference from space that “to look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible, ” says facts about scientific discovery should be taught in schools-and that includes evolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Evolution should not be taught in public schools because, although it is openly displayed as a theory, evolution continues to impact and bias students’ opinions and outlooks on modern science.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of these laws, Tennessee’s, gave rise to what is still known as the Scopes monkey trial. Knowing that he would be arrested, John Scopes taught evolution in a high school science class. Eventually, Scopes was convicted and fined $100, but his conviction was overturned on a technicality.