The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial
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The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial

At Its Heart the Trial Was about Racism

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial

At Its Heart the Trial Was about Racism

About this book

The enormous amount of literature on the Scopes Trial focuses on the religious elements of the trial. It almost totally ignored the importance of racism as taught in the text that Scopes used to teach biology. Bryan was not concerned about evolution in general, but specifically human evolution. He believed that Darwin's theory, as applied to humans, encouraged the oppression of certain oppressed groups. Taking evolution's philosophy to its logical conclusion meant justifying "survival of the fittest" in social matters. This philosophy he learned from his extensive reading about WWI was a major factor influencing the Germans to fight in the first World War. Furthermore, Bryan believed the citizens of Tennessee had a right to determine what their children were taught in the public schools. Another fact that is rarely mentioned is the main fossil evidence cited in the trial documents, and the press, in support of human evolution has been discredited by evolutionists including Neanderthal man, Piltdown man, Java man, and Nebraska man. Scopes was not a biology teacher, but rather taught math. His college degree was not in biology, but law. He was not put on the stand to testify in his trial, probably because he never taught evolution and could not honestly answer questions about teaching it. This book covers the so-called trial of the century, telling the real story of a sham brought on by the ACLU to further their political and anti-Christian goals.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Chapter 1: One of the Most Distorted Events of American History
  4. Chapter 2: Vilifying Christianity and Christians
  5. Chapter 3: William Jennings Bryan
  6. Chapter 4: Bryan’s Main Concern: Racism
  7. Chapter 5: The American Civil Liberties Union
  8. Chapter 6: The Scopes Trial: A Struggle Against Eugenics and Racism
  9. Chapter 7: Scope’s Leading Attorney: Agnostic Clarence Darrow
  10. Chapter 8: The Passage of the Butler Act
  11. Chapter 9: The Evidence
  12. Chapter 10: H. L. Mencken: An Atheist, Darwinist, Eugenicist, and Militant Opposer to William Jennings Bryan
  13. Chapter 11: Inherit the Wind: Popularizing a False View of the Scopes Trial
  14. Chapter 12: The Trial Still Affects Society Today
  15. Chapter 13: Conclusions
  16. Appendix
  17. Select Books by Jerry Bergman
  18. Bibliography