John Thomas Scopes

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John Thomas Scopes - Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)

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evolution John Scopes organic evolution phylogenesis phylogeny Scopes Scopes trial trial			John Thomas Scopes, the biology teacher on trial, was found guilty of breaking the law. Want to Teach Intelligent Design? Put It in A History Class by Steven Vannoy And Craig Ross / Reference and Education community John Thomas Scopes trial, and similar matters is included to a limited extent. Darwin's Origin of species; a biography by SciTech Book News That year the civilised world laughed itself sick over the weird goings-on in Tennessee where 24-year-old science teacher John Thomas Scopes was being prosecuted for the crime - the SIN, the fundamentalists frothed - of teaching pupils that man was indeed descended from apes. TRIAL THAT EXPOSED EVOLUTIONARY MISFITS by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)			John Reed John Robinson Jeffers John Rock John Roderigo Dos Passos John Roebling John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John Ross John Rowlands John Roy Major John Rupert Firth John Ruskin John Rutledge John Scopes John Scott Haldane John Simmons Barth John Singer Sargent John Singleton Copley John Smith John Speke John Steinbeck John Stuart Mill John the Baptist John the Divine John the Evangelist John Thomas John Thomas Scopes John Tradescant John Trumbull John Tuzo Wilson John Tyler John Tyndall John Uhler John Updike John Van Vleck John Vanbrugh John Venn John VI John von Neumann John Wain John Walker John Wanamaker John Wayne John Webster John Wesley John Wickliffe John Wiclif John Wilkes John Wilkes Booth John William Strutt John Witherspoon John Wyclif			John the Evangelist John the Evangelist, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Fearless John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy John the Forerunner John the Forerunner John the Fortunate John the Fortunate John the Good John the Good John the Good John the Great John the Great John the Revelator John the Savage John the Savage John the Savage John the Scot John the Theologian John the Theologian John the White Rapper John Thomas John Thomas John Thomas (disambiguation) John Thomas Dunlop John Thomas Dunlop John Thomas Dye School John Thomas Experience John Thomas Miner John Thomas Scopes John Thomas Troy John Thomas Whitehead Mitchell John Thrumbull John Thrumbull John Titor John Todd Ecological Design John Toland John Toland (philosopher) John Tomlinson John Tonkin Water Centre John Torrey John Torrey John Tradescant John Travolta John Trigg Ester Library John Troelstrup Land Surveying John Trumbull John Trumbull John Trumbull John Trumbull (painter) John Trumbull (painter) John Tukey John Turberville Needham John Turchin John Turgeson Public Library John Tuzo Wilson John Tyler John Tyler John Tyler John Tyler

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