Re: a simple fine

This paragraph in the link Daniel provided sums it up:

> Great effort is made to solicit sympathy for John Scopes, the much
> persecuted school teacher cast into jail for teaching evolution, and who risks losing
> his job and his girlfriend. We are repeatedly reminded that ‘fine and imprisonment’
> are possible consequences of his crime.
>

Basically, an Tennessee public schoolteacher wanted to teach evolution
and sued for the right to do so.

John Scopes was the name of the teacher, and its link to evolution
caused it to be dubbed The Scopes Monkey Trial. A film was made about
the whole thing several decades ago -- Inherit the Wind -- which the
author of this page asserts is historically inaccurate on a number
counts, serving the purpose of pro-evolution propoganda. The guy seems
to have done some decent research. It'd be interesting to read an
equally well researched rebuttal.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> Not for the first time, I've lost the plot.
>
> What's all this business with the Scopes' trial?
>
> I hope it's not what I'm beginning to have
> the uneasy feeling it might be. Like when
> a chum of a lifetime assumes you are receiving
> the same messages from the television set that
> he is.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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Received on Fri Aug 22 19:23:14 2003