100 Years after Scopes ‘Monkey Trial,’the Theocrats are Winning
Fundamentalist worldview is rigid and binary. It opposes public education and treats government as a tool for moral coercion. By Eric Lane, For the Express-News, July 24, 2025 This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the courtroomspectacle in which a young teacher in Tennessee was put on trial for teaching evolution.Though John Scopes was convicted,…