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Tolerance on trial
Science ( IF 44.7 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-19 , DOI: 10.1126/science.adv2874 H. Holden Thorp
Science ( IF 44.7 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-19 , DOI: 10.1126/science.adv2874 H. Holden Thorp
Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial, a 1925 court case in the US state of Tennessee on the teaching of evolution in public schools. John Scopes was tried for violating the Butler Act, a state rule that declared unlawful any teaching that denied the creation of man according to the Bible. The highly publicized event put an intense spotlight on William Jennings Bryan, a populist presidential candidate and religious fundamentalist who was counsel for the government, and on Clarence Darrow, a liberal agnostic and social justice advocate who defended Scopes. Scopes was found guilty, a verdict that was later overturned on a technicality. The trial was one of the first to be dubbed the “trial of the century” and has since been discussed, taught, and reflected on in books, plays, and movies (most notably, it was fictionalized in Inherit the Wind ). A century later, the politics and sociology of that moment are still relevant, with implications for tolerance in today’s world.
更新日期：2024-12-19
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