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After witnessing the horrors of World War I, Bryan became convinced that the teaching of evolution was leading society to ruin through war. "Survival of the fittest" provided an intellectual justification for the brutal killing of other nationalities and races. Bryan foresaw the ethnic cleansing that grew to its horrible culmination in the Holocaust.
After witnessing the horrors of World War I, Bryan became convinced that the teaching of evolution was leading society to ruin through war. "Survival of the fittest" provided an intellectual justification for the brutal killing of other nationalities and races. Bryan foresaw the ethnic cleansing that grew to its horrible culmination in the Holocaust.
Bryan defended the Tennessee law and its application to Scopes, with its $100 fine as the penalty for teaching evolution. Darrow agreed to take the witness stand in favor of teaching evolution if Bryan took the witness stand against it. Bryan then testified and performed well. With that the trial ended, and Tennessee's Butler Act remained in effect for another half century, until 1967. To this day, Tennesee schools continue to teach little evolution.
Bryan defended the Tennessee law and its application to Scopes, with its $100 fine as the penalty for teaching evolution. Darrow agreed to take the witness stand in favor of teaching evolution if Bryan took the witness stand against it. Bryan then testified and performed well. When the trial ended, Tennessee's Butler Act remained in effect for another half century, until 1967. To this day, Tennesee schools continue to teach little evolution.
In 1955, the trial was fictionalized an dramatized in the play [[Inherit the Wind]] by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The play was later written into a movie by Lawrence, Lee, and Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Many misinformed people today think that Scopes and the evolutionists won the trial, but conservative rule in Tennessee today reflects the true outcome.
In 1955, the trial was fictionalized an dramatized in the play [[Inherit the Wind]] by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The play was later written into a movie by Lawrence, Lee, and Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Many misinformed people today think that Scopes and the evolutionists won the trial, but conservative rule in Tennessee today reflects the true outcome.