What was the effect of this decision and how does it affect us today?
2007-12-02 12:34:47 · 10 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I agree, just asking this question reveals that this issue that was dead for the years before Reagan, continues like bad luck. Only now the Religious fanatics label it Intelligent Design.
2007-12-02 13:20:55 · answer #1 · answered by razor 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agree. The Scopes trial was one of the best things that could've happened to America.
2007-12-02 13:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, I agree with the court.
Science over emotion.
As Thomas Frank concluded in What's the Matter with Kansas?, American voters have been brain-washed into voting against their own economic interests in an obsessive drive to legislate "Christian values" into our nation. "Scopes II" validates his point. Contemplating the conclusions of Mr. Frank, integrating the observations of others, and infusing my own analysis, I surmised that the root of America's decay is the insatiable lust for power and money by the ruling class. Our republic is crumbling while our standing in the world community has disintegrated to the point that America is the object of global fear and hatred. During the Gilded Age, America experienced a similar period of laissez-faire capitalism, inequitable distribution of wealth, and imperialistic endeavors. However, the government of that era lacked the propaganda machine to sustain the over-indulgence of the elite. Today's government media empire has the capacity to lull our citizenry into surrendering their individual freedoms in exchange for the comfort of the protective bosom of Big Brother.
2007-12-02 12:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
I don't care one way or another. But when a theory is taught, all opposing theories should be taught as well. Scientific fact is provable. Theory hasn't reached that level. But this is the least of our problems in the leftist public school system.
2007-12-02 13:37:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scopes trial took place ages ago.
Are people so backward that they have nothing better to do than worry about a trial that happened in the 1920s?
2007-12-02 12:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Scopes was found guilty and I think he was innocent. Yes, religion does teach where we come from, but science cannot be ignored. This affects society today because some people want to believe in evolution by their faith alone and they fail to recognize science as a part of it. People need to be more open to possibilities and question their existence.
2007-12-02 12:39:43 · answer #6 · answered by susann002 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I disagree.
I believe that evolution and Creationism BOTH happened.
NOT one or the other!
In the Book of Genesis it clearly says "After Adam left Eden his sons took wives from the daughters of men."
look it up and see for yourself, it's right in there. Why (Men)_ are so stupid as not to understand that GOD said they both happened is beyond me. Especially when Science keeps telling us that there were several different types of men but the last one before us suddenly died out and we took over...guess what? Was that when it happened?
The sons of Adam took wives from the daughters of men and the resulting species is what we are today?
2007-12-02 12:40:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Agree...... You do know that Scopes was found guilty.. of teaching evoloution
2007-12-02 12:39:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree with teaching evolution in the classroom. And it was a great movie (Inherit the Wind).
2007-12-02 12:37:24 · answer #9 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
science
2007-12-02 12:38:15 · answer #10 · answered by mintman123 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋