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Monkey business : the true story of the Scopes trial

Describes the famous 1925 courtroom showdown of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the teaching of evolution in public schools, and points out details and discrepancies that have not come to light until recently
eBook, English, ©2005
Broadman & Holman, Nashville, Tenn., ©2005
Trials, litigation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations)
1150867273
Desperate Dayton
A city's opportunity
An orator's opportunity
Anticipation
The circus begins
"Armed clowns ... have begun to shoot"
Face-off
In the beginning
The stakes
Back to the trial
Sparring over experts
Malone tops Bryan
Heating up
The evolution war
Inherit the wind
Establishing atheism
The main event
Journalistic monkeys
The week after
Wrapping up the trial
Fighting the religion of evolution
Explaining intelligent design
Kansas, Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee
The wedge
Consequences
Surmounting stereotypes
Appendix A: "Scopes 75th anniversary broadcast," Science Friday with host Ira Flatow, July 21, 2000, WNYC and National Public Radio
Appendix B: "The view from 2025: how design beat Darwin," reprinted from World magazine, April 3, 2004
Appendix C: Malone replies to Bryan
Appendix D: Text of Bryan's proposed address in Scopes case
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