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Scopes v. Tennessee

Evolutionism or creationism, it is a long lasting controversy of how everything came into being. In certain areas of the United States, mostly the Bible belt in the South, there are laws or statues that make it illegal to teach certain theories, presumably evolutionism, to students in public schools. Everyone has their own beliefs about the subject but the real question is, “Should everyone’s beliefs be taught in public schools?” Well, this debate has been going on ever since 1925 when the first Supreme Court case of this kind was being started in Tennessee. It all started when John Thomas Scopes, a biology teacher, was convicted of a violation of the Act of 1925, which stated people could not teach the idea that man descended from a lower order of animals in the public schools of Rhea County.

Although he only was fined $100.00 in Rhea County he believed this decision was in violation of his 1st and 14th Amendment rights and decided to take this case to the Supreme Court in Tennessee. There it was decided that banning the teaching of any theory other than the one taught in the Bible was considered unconstitutional on the bases of combining

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