The resulting trial was made famous almost immediately as a contest between—take your pick—Darwin and the Bible; science and religion; modernism and traditionalism; the educated and the uneducated; ...

Jesuit Fr. John Conley, a theology professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, is pictured in this undated photo. Conley has a keen interest in the history of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

This July marks the centenary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. On a return trip from Florida nearly two decades ago, my wife, Alice, and I stopped at Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. We ...

In July 1925, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial captivated the nation. On its face, the case was relatively straightforward: A Tennessee biology teacher named John Scopes was accused of teaching human ...

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of ...

The music swells as Spencer Tracy, Bible in one hand and Darwin's "Origin of Species" in the other, tucks both books under his arm. Away he saunters — out of the courtroom and into the future.

Some in our society seem to think that the Creator has somehow been disproved by science, that evolution is a proven fact, that the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years ago this month helped settle the ...