Lets take a blast in the past about the monkey trial?

Question

how was john thomas scopes involved on the trial. Like i wanna o who aproached himm and how it all came about.
Plz no links give me the info here thanx. First person to give the correct info gets the points.

Answer 1

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had offered to defend anyone accused of teaching the theory of evolution in defiance of the Butler Act. George Rappleyea, who managed a number of local mines, convinced a group of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, then a town of 1,800, that the controversy of such a trial would put Dayton on the map. With their agreement, he called in his friend, 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who was the Rhea County High School's football coach who had substituted for the principal in a science class. Rappleyea asked Scopes to teach the theory of evolution."

"Rappleyea pointed out that while the Butler Act prohibited the teaching of the theory of evolution, the state required teachers to use a textbook - George Hunter's Civic Biology (1914) - which explicitly described and endorsed the theory of evolution, and that teachers were therefore effectively required to break the law. Scopes could not actually remember having covered the section on evolution in Hunter's textbook, but he told the group "If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial." "

"Scopes became an increasingly willing participant, even incriminating himself and urging students to do the same. He was indicted on May 25, after three students testified against him at the Grand Jury, at Scopes' behest. According to Edward J. Larson, Judge John T. Raulston accelerated the convening of the grand jury and "...all but instructed the grand jury to indict Scopes, despite the meager evidence against him and the widely reported stories questioning whether the willing defendant had ever taught evolution in the classroom." Scopes was charged with having taught from the chapter on evolution to a 1925-05-07 high school class in violation of the Butler Act (and nominally arrested, though never detained)." ("Scopes Trial", Wikipeda")

"Scopes' involvement in the so-called Monkey Trial came about after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that it would finance a test case challenging the constitutionality of the Butler Act if they could find a Tennessee teacher willing to act as a defendant."

"A group of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, led by engineer and geologist George Rappleyea, saw this as an opportunity to get publicity for their town and approached Scopes. Rappleyea pointed out that while the Butler Act prohibited the teaching of evolution, the state required teachers to use the assigned textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology (1914), which included a chapter on evolution. Rappleyea argued that teachers were essentially required to break the law. When asked about the test case Scopes was initially reluctant to get involved, but after some discussion he told the group gathered in Robinson's Drugstore, "If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial." " ("John T. Scopes", Wikipedia)

Answer 2

The "Scopes Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial") was a watershed in the creation-evolution controversy that pitted lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow against each other (the latter representing teacher John Thomas Scopes) in an American legal case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." This is often interpreted as meaning that the law forbade the teaching of any aspect of the theory of evolution. John Scopes, a high school teacher, was arrested for teaching evolution from a chapter in a textbook which showed ideas developed from those set out in Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. The famous trial was made infamous by the fictionalized accounts given in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind and 1960 Hollywood motion picture of the same name. From Wikipedia.

Answer 3

No one "approached him". He was a science teacher in a small town that was predominantly evangelical. He had followed Darwin's theories closely and wanted to teach them in his classes. But a minister in town...and his congregation...got very upset by the contradictions between the Theory of Evolution and the Bible. They had him arrested and prosecuted.

William Jennings Bryan, who had previously run for president on not one but two tickets at once, came in to be a de facto "guest prosecutor". He was great at spouting scripture and worked hard to convict Scopes. To defend him, a law professor first volunteered to represent Scopes. When Bryan jumped in to prosecute, Clarence Darrow went down South to join the defense team. Darrow and Bryan had a long history of mistrusting each other. This was their last hurrah.

In the end, Scopes won and the law preventing the teaching of Evolution was repealed. Not long after the trial, Bryan died and it wasn't the way his wife wanted him remembered. She wanted him remembered as a winner, but History looked at his election and then the trial and concluded that he was the ultimate runner up.

Answer 4

I'll give it a shot. Scopes was a teacher from Kentucky. When teachers were banned from teaching the theory of evolution. Scopes purposefully broke this law to test the legal system. He took it to court and was supported by Clarence Darrow. The opposing lawyer was William Jennings Bryan, who was the 1896 Democrat Presidential candidate who made the famous "cross of gold speech"

Answer 5

Scopes was approached by a newspaper reporter and made a test case.