The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of?

Question

A) progressive education
B) the right to parochial schools to exist
C) teachers' membership in the Ku Klux Klan
D) teaching evolution in public schools

Answer 1

D

Answer 2

This is very long, but certainly worth the effort to read the entire "Q". Using common sense and human decency, why in the world shouldn't ANY credible theory of our origins be taught in our public schools? You mean, only theories that do not presuppose direct and continuous involvement by an Author and Designer of these origins are acceptable? Why is that? Whatever happened to applying the pluralistic values in our public education system that we have held to for so long as a democracy? It appears to me that no matter how developed a theory may be over others, if it is theory and not fact, it needs to share at least proportionately equal time with any others. If evolutionists cry foul about the Scopes trial in the 30's, then why do they repeat the same behaviors that some Christians did, that being attempting to exclude all other theories of origin, which they believed at that time was so unjust? Of course, then there's the issue of the separation of church and state. What does this have to do with public education? This doctrine has all to do with one church denomination calling the shots in government, as the Church of England did in the 1700's with England and all her colonies and territories. It's not the separation of religious influential views on public education and state, but church and state! Even Thomas Jefferson, the author of that doctrine and a deist said, "The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion." With this, I rest my case.

Answer 3

The trial was Tennessee Va John Scopes who was a biology teacher, who taught the theory of evolution, that Mankind was descended from Apes.

It was called the monkey trial. (D)

In the Trial he was defended by Clarence Darrow.

Answer 4

Duh the teaching of evolution in public schools. read your textbook kid. You might learn something. All of these other options dont even make sense.