Tag: Scopes Monkey Trial
With Empty Threats of Lawsuits, the Tennessee Darwin Lobby Is Just Fearmongering
Do critics of academic freedom have no better argument than this?
Tennessee Darwin Lobbyists Really Pushing the State Back Towards Scopes
Today it’s the opponents of Darwinism who are fighting for academic freedom.
More from Lenski’s Lab, Still Spinning Furiously
As always, the work is solid and interesting, but is spun like a top to make it appear to support Darwinian evolution more than it does.
John Scopes on Higher Education
“More intolerance in higher education than in all the mountains of Tennessee.”
New Film Exposes Bigotry and Junk Science of Early Twentieth-Century Darwinists
The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life.