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THE SCOPES TRIAL: THE EVOLUTION CASE THAT STIRRED A NATION
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THE SCOPES TRIAL: THE EVOLUTION CASE THAT STIRRED A NATION
Episode Summary In the summer of 1925, a quiet Appalachian town found itself thrust onto the national stage as Dayton, Tennessee became the unlikely battleground for one of the most dramatic courtroom clashes in American history. The Scopes "Monkey Trial" pitted science against scripture, modernism against traditionalism, and two of the era's most towering public figures—William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow—against each other in a legal showdown…
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