Scopes Monkey - Rare Footage of the "Trial of the Century" | Flashback | History

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was one of the most important legal battles of its time. Two of the era’s great speakers, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, faced off in a debate encompassing science, religion, and Constitutional rights. #HistoryChannel #Flashback #ScopesMonkey
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[@Frank-it9kl]

Boy I'm glad this was all settled in 1925

[@robertarisz8464]

I appreciate understated sarcasm when I find it. Thanks,

[@Declan-pg8cg]

Only in the courtroom. There is even more bible literalists today, trying to drag America towards a theocracy with their deluded nonsense.

[@sandramcclure2598]

They have found out lately that the so called cave man ( Piltdown man(modern man modified to look old) and Nebraska man ( a pigs tooth)that they used to prove there case, was a hoax. To bad we Took God out of the schools because of a lie to teach a lie.

[@tomwhitworth1560]

@@sandramcclure2598 Nope you're wrong.

[@into.the.wood.chipper.]

@@sandramcclure2598 The burden on you is to prove that.

[@michaelcarter3334]

Well, they thought it was settled. But you cannot keep ignorance down. It just keeps emerging.

[@gelodude07]

Now that's what you call a moral victory for the defendant Scopes and Atty. Darrow.

[@deewesthill1213]

There's a funny song that was written just for this occasion, it goes "Monkey business, monkey business down in Tennessee....".

[@blu3collar949]

It was a publicity stunt. Scopes wasn't even sure if he even taught evolution in his class. But he agreed to accept the charges so that a trail could take place. Bryan and Darrow were big name lawyers. In the movie, they have Bryan dying in the courtroom but of course he didn't die until 5 days after the trial. Fredrick March who was born in my home town of Racine, WI played Bryan. They made him bald to look like Bryan. They did a good job of that. But the movie "Inherit the Wind" left out or added a lot of things that never came up at the trial.

[@MelancoliaI]

Well yeah, Inherit the Wind was a drama that changed the names and location, magnifying the characters into archetypes in a battle for free thought. It blew up the trial into an epic confrontation, staying neutral into the very end. The end is interesting, because it seems to me the authors of the play had an ax to grind with H.L. Mencken, the infamous Sage of Baltimore, for his unrelenting, ever-sneering cynicism, presenting him as a nihilist taking up the cause of the underdog simply because it was the less popular choice.

[@MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutor]

I would agree that this was the trial of the century. The modernists wanted to take God Out of public life and have a materialistic world. Because Protestantism has no real intellectual basis Bryan was not able to combat the attacks effectively. So eventually the way it was set for a secular atheism and subjectivism which is seeing its ultimate fruit today

[@TCW524]

Apparently, the fear of the Evolution Theory was(to some) based on the possibility that some(white) people would apply it to social situations, and use it to argue that people of ethnicity other than their own were of a lesser stage in evolution, saying that they were superior in that sense.

[@tombolo4120]

Divide and conquer.. pit two foolish positions against one another excluding logic, reason, and truth.

[@Randall2023]

Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

[@dreywhitfield4184]

I live in this town lol

[@jonjahr3403]

@Drey Whitfield Is it any better today? Are there any intellectuals?

[@sweettea5692]

I live in Dayton also.

[@HeSavesMankind]

Over 2,400 prophecies prove the bible and God disproving atheism, unbelief and all other religion. I wish I'd been in that court. The christians would have won.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

Well the whole point of the trial l guess was whether there was enough evidence in Darwin theory that end up making a 🐵 out of all of us. Lol

[@jford14881]

The wooded beardsman will win alone!!!

[@jubileerainbow6932]

law of evolution...adapt or die out

[@anthonymaurino9569]

Theory of evolution never became a "law". FYI.

[@nightmare8682]

..................

[@StandingForLight]

Yeah it was a publicity stunt to generate money. But psalm there's a difference between Saying evolution can can cause minor changes within a species vs saying evolution can change a species into an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT species. A Pigeon and a Blue Jay are 2 different types of birds, but they're still BIRDS. They didn't go from a bird into being a cat. There's very little factual evidence for species transformation unless I'm missing something.

[@danielpenn1734]

Sure hope the messages below are not saying we came from a monkey. If so. No wonder why we are so screwed up

[@ren-sama4203]

What was the argument?

[@disunityholychaos7523]

basically science vs Fundamentalism during those times, "In 1925, a teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes taught his students about evolution. Earlier that year, the state had passed a law making it illegal to teach evolution in schools. Scopes was arrested for breaking the new state law. The Scopes Trial came to be seen as religion versus science. Large crowds traveled to Tennessee to see the trial. About 1,000 people were in the courtroom on the first day of the hearing. The climax of the drama happened near the end of the trial. Scopes’ lawyer Clarence Darrow called an unexpected witness. He asked William Jennings Bryan to testify. Bryan was the state’s lead lawyer on the case. Bryan claimed to be an expert on the Bible. Darrow led him through a series of questions that challenged the belief that people should live their lives according to the Bible. By the end of his testimony, Bryan testified that stories in the Bible could not always be taken literally. However, the judge ruled that Bryan’s statements should be removed from the record of the trial. He said that they did not provide any evidence. The jury found Scopes guilty. He had to pay $100" then scopes appealed again and found not guilty with batch of lawyers and science fact checkers argued over such law & religious fundamentalism of the times.. (quote taken from school lesson we had right now in history online class 1920s)

[@Wifgargfhaurh]

Science vs Religion

[@drewbari2962]

It is sad that there aren't very many people that can see the manipulative propaganda used in the summary of this trial.

[@tomwhitworth1560]

What propaganda?

[@flor473]

While i am for teaching about the different theories on how this world came to be, i do agree that the summary seemed biased

[@cavemaster5013]

1st

[@cr-vb4xy]

soo

[@jerrypolverino6025]

Religion is a horror.

[@Mr-DNA_]

It is

[@joelbedulla4]

As a believer I disagree. Fundamentalism and thinking your holy book is 100% infallible is a horror.

[@mrm2542]

​@Akhil Felix you're a fool, who knows nothing. Full of hate. I pity you

[@renataostertag6051]

@akhilfelix 100% correct!

[@user-jl4ss3wv3p]

i am first

[@user-jl4ss3wv3p]

wow

[@cr-vb4xy]

where is the vikings facking trailer

[@jaydenmesecher4711]

liberals and intellectuals LMAO give me a breakXD

[@roder51]

Yes because Conservatives are so advanced. 😂😂😂😂

[@jaydenmesecher4711]

@@roder51 yet are suicide rates are lower must be somekind of mental strength

[@catherinemelnyk]

Freedom of thought is one thing, but to TEACH ALL THIS as if it w were true??? What blasphemy!

[@flor473]

I am for teaching all sides and opinions with neutrality and letting the students use their critical thinking skills to decide what to believe

[@Mehki227]

​@@flor473Most people didn't actually have critical thinking, hence religion and the rise of drumpf🤷🏽‍♀️

[@lynneeify]

The fool has said in his heart," There is no God".

[@Lewa500]

“A witty saying proves nothing.” -- Voltaire

[@roder51]

Yeah, because for being an all-power being who demands worship (under threat of eternal torment), he's awfully coy about providing any credible evidence at all that he even exists, much less what he actually wants.

[@protocol3228]

DerickE are you dumb that is not right it goes way different He wants you to believe in him and repent

[@duhhmas4746]

@@protocol3228 And how do we know that? Has he ever come down to Earth and said it in our faces? No, he hasn't.

[@zhongxina9420]

@@protocol3228 religion is the product of folktales told through generations for their ideals, in the bronze age it was tips about survival but nowadays it's order and to obey