Scopes

[skohps]

noun

1. John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre Scopes Trial, or Monkey Trial in 1925.

Example Sentences

Through partial grants, the fund ended up involved with legendary American court cases like the Scopes trial, the Ossian Sweet trial, Brown vs.

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It seems the administration and its allies in Congress want to set the United States back a century — back to the time of the Scopes trial.

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The following year, he defended a Tennessee schoolteacher named John Scopes who was accused of teaching evolution.

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As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.

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Ironic that the city of Dayton, Tenn., was the site of the Scopes trial, something one feels the current Dayton, Wash., anti-library protesters would approve of.

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