The Scopes Trial: A Battle Of The Ages
The turn of the nineteenth century witnessed the beginning of what was to become the demise of the Victorian Era. With the Victorian generation aging and slowly fading away, a new generation with ground-breaking ideals emerged. These Modernists adopted completely radical ideas; women no longer sat at home, and children revolted against their parent’s Victorian ideals, displaying sexual freedom, and generally abandoning religion altogether.# The older generation saw their precious Victorian values slipping away. With no other solution in sight, they adopted the strict and quite over-bearing doctrine of fundamentalism. The central theme of their new movement was the literal interpretation of the Bible and, accompanying the movement, were ideals of temperance, gentility, and sexual repression.# With a large following, Fundamentalists easily passed laws to curb the rise of Modernism. One of the most influential laws of the era became the law against teaching evolution in schools. At the climax of the battle between Modernism and Fundamentalism was the Scopes Trial. Within the Modernist generation was a class of scientists in which secularism was building. One teacher, John Scopes, agreeing with the idea that science and reli
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