USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind’s origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.

Detailed explanation-2: -In March 1925, the Tennessee state legislature passed a bill that banned the teaching of evolution in all educational institutions throughout the state. The Butler Act set off alarm bells around the country. The ACLU responded immediately with an offer to defend any teacher prosecuted under the law.

Detailed explanation-3: -And bans on teaching evolution remained in place in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee until 1970. New obstacles then emerged, particularly requirements to teach various forms of creationism as alternatives to evolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1920s, some religious fundamentalists charged that teaching evolution was destroying people’s faith in God and in the Bible. The Scopes monkey trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, focused on the issue of whether the theory of evolution should be taught in public schools.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.