Here's a great article about an amazing cache of photos just discovered in the Smithsonian's closet: An extravaganza of pics of the famous Monkey Trial. This one is of one of my all-time heroes, brave science teacher John T. Scopes:
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
And Now For Something Completely Different
Seems all I've been talking about lately (other than Condi, of course) is sticks of butter, hairdressers, and language viruses, so shall we change up a little?
Here's a great article about an amazing cache of photos just discovered in the Smithsonian's closet: An extravaganza of pics of the famous Monkey Trial. This one is of one of my all-time heroes, brave science teacher John T. Scopes:
Here's a great article about an amazing cache of photos just discovered in the Smithsonian's closet: An extravaganza of pics of the famous Monkey Trial. This one is of one of my all-time heroes, brave science teacher John T. Scopes:
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I'm a middle school science teacher. Two weeks into my first year, one of my students jumps up in the middle of a current event about a new dinosaur and starts screaming at the top of her lungs that dinosaurs never existed, we aren't descended from monkeys and scientists are just trying to kill God. Needless to say, I was stunned.
The wretched people in this country who are so bloody ignorant that they can't distinguish between belief and scientific theory are clearly not intelligent enough for anyone to take seriously.
Oh, you go, Sister!
I'm surprised that child isn't home-schooled.
What's in the sky behind Scopes? Flying saucers?
Pssst... sfmike, take a look at the actual photo in the linked article.
Scopes was no great hero, just a pawn. He was a football coach who knew nothing about evolution (and did not teach it in class, despite his conviction).
You can read more about this here.
Yes, I learned the same as Vadim. His "teaching of evolution" was actually something to save him from perjury in court because he had never done so to begin with. So that afternoon he hopped in the car with a few kids, one of which I believe was the judge's son, and talked to them about evolution. Having done this he could now continue with the trial which lasted for days, the length of which was odd since he had openly admitted to teaching evolution and it was againt the law in Tennessee at the time. It was a spectacle whose truth can rarely be found in books and the case itself should seem suspicious to most history teachers.
"The wretched people in this country who are so bloody ignorant that they can't distinguish between belief and scientific theory are clearly not intelligent enough for anyone to take seriously."
"Scopes was no great hero, just a pawn. He was a football coach who knew nothing about evolution (and did not teach it in class, despite his conviction)."
Oh I'm sorry, that was supposed to be...who were you you referring to again?
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