2. John Scopes was the persecuted school teacher who was immediately jailed for teaching evolution when his classroom was invaded. He remained in jail throughout the trial.
2007-07-10
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False. His classroom was never invaded as depicted in Inherit the Wind, and he was never jailed or in danger of imprisonment.)
Throughout the trial, the definition of the term evolution was so muddled by the defense and its witnesses that it seems unlikely that any of the jurors could have known exactly what evolution is and is not.
Evolution was repeatedly confused with such ideas like embryology and aging.)
The students of John Scopes were coached by the defense team to perjure themselves by saying they were taught evolution in the classroom. Famous evolutionist attorney Clarence Darrow, who was supposed to defend his client from a law that forbade the teaching of evolution, coached the students to lie and claim that Scopes taught evolution, when in fact he didn’t.)
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