Marvin Olasky and John Perry. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2005. 144 pp. (Hardback).
Subtitled “The True Story of the Scopes Trial,” this book explores in an in-depth fashion the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
This production is greatly needed inasmuch as the facts of the case have never been fairly and fully reported until now.
It is surprising to learn that John Scopes never taught evolution, but was an athletic coach and math teacher.
Furthermore, the evolutionary theory had already been in school textbooks since 1909.
Here, readers will discover an appropriate amount of faith and the law, as well as the dawn of mass media and media sensationalism.
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