That was the big surprise for me when I learned about it more in depth. In grade school, it was presented as "religion vs. evolution." Then later in life I learned it was mostly staged (at least initially) and there was more nuance to it. The fact that the textbook also advocated eugenics was something that didn't get mentioned a lot.
Inherit the Wind portrays it more straightforward, but was using it as a metaphor for McCarthyism.
rosstedfordkendall t1_ja8i411 wrote
Reply to comment by no_step in TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
That was the big surprise for me when I learned about it more in depth. In grade school, it was presented as "religion vs. evolution." Then later in life I learned it was mostly staged (at least initially) and there was more nuance to it. The fact that the textbook also advocated eugenics was something that didn't get mentioned a lot.
Inherit the Wind portrays it more straightforward, but was using it as a metaphor for McCarthyism.