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Inherit the Monkey Trial

Scopes-trial historian Ed Larson explains why Christians should be taught evolution.

By Karl Giberson & Donald Yerxa | posted 5/22/2000 12:00AM

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Bryan College, founded shortly after Bryan's death, has reams of material on Bryan and the trial and will sponsor a Scopes Trial Play and Festival this summer. The college's Web site also has a history of Bryan and the trial.

Carol Iannone's "The Truth About Inherit the Wind," which appeared in First Things in 1997, is a pointed critique of Inherit the Wind, the 1960 film loosely based on the Scopes trial. Other critical evaluations of the film can be found at Does God Exist? and Answers in Genesis.

The creation/evolution controversy has continued to spawn court cases. Significant U.S. court decisions regarding the teaching of evolution and creation in public schools include Epperson v. Arkansas (1968), McLean v. Arkansas(1982), Edwards v. Aguillard(1987), Peloza v. Capistrano School District (1994), and Freiler v. Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education (1999).

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