The Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925: What Really Happened, Part 1
Most Americans have only the vaguest awareness of the Scopes trial. They do not know why it was important.
It has become known as the "monkey trial." But it was not about monkeys in the evolutionary chain that produced man. It was about control of the tax-funded schools by the voters.
In the early 1920's, William Jennings Bryan began a campaign to get Darwinian evolution out of tax-funded schools, grades 1 through 12. This challenged the crucial monopoly of humanists in America: control over the public schools. They mounted a campaign against Bryan's campaign against them.
The political conflict culminated in a five-day trial in tiny Dayton, Tennessee in July of 1925.
In this video, I cover the background of the trial: what was at stake and why.
Part 2 is here: https://www.garynorth.com/public/21587.cfm.
Does all this seem incredible? I have written a mini-book on the Scopes trial. It has the footnotes to support my version of the story. Download it here.
For a short summary of the background of the trial, read my article here.