... taking the challenge by a friend, George Rappleyea, who saw the advertisement. With the school's biology teacher out for the last two weeks of class, Scopes took over and began teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Soon after, he was arrested and charged with a violation of the Butler Act. Contrary to ... to cling to the past or jump into the future. The trial itself was a series of conflicts, the obvious one being evolution vs. religion. But as John Crowe Ransom notes, there were a series of tensions throughout the trial, including questions of collective vs. individual rights and acad...

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