Scopes Trial

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Name: Scopes Trial

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents

US behind curve in accepting evolution science

According to a National Geographic news article from August 2006 (back to that date in a moment), of 34 “western” nations, Turkey was the only country with a smaller percentage of adults who believed in evolution theory than the United States.In the U.S., ... [ Published 6 hours ago by Advocate Messenger ]

Entities: Evolution, Charles Darwin, United States, Pro-Life

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Background behind play is intriguing

Hats off to the three local agencies presenting the courtroom drama “Inherit the Wind” at the Wilkes Heritage Museum on Main Street, Wilkesboro.The agencies are the Wilkes Playmakers, the Cultural Arts Council and the Wilkes Heritage Museum. This is the ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Wilkes Journal Patriot ]

Entities: Clarence Darrow, John T. Scopes, Evolution, Dayton (Tennessee, United States)

First Reported May 13 2012 - Updated May 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Come To Greg Rabb’s Defense

_ To the Readers' Forum:It's been filtering back to the gay community in Erie County about what has been going on in Jamestown vis a vis the attacks on your City Council President Greg Rabb.I've known Greg ever since I moved into Western New York back ... [ Published May 13 2012 by Jamestown Post-Journal ]

Entities: Jamestown (New York, United States), Gay, Scopes Trial, attack

First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

HARDWARE CITY HISTORY: Renowned actor and city native, James Maloneyâs brief stint as mayor

You might not have known James Maloney by name, but if you were around in the 1950s and ’60s, there’s no doubt whatsoever that you saw his face. The New Britain native was one of the hardest working character actors in the business with an incredible ... [ Published May 12 2012 by NewBritainHerald.com ]

Entities: James Maloney, New Britain (Connecticut, United States), Paul Muni, Ralph Bellamy, Zero Mostel

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Out& About: Gemini captain already planning 2014 anniversary ball

Calling all ye who rode in the first Krewe of Gemini Parade in 1990.Captain-elect Russ Friedrich needs you!He wants you to participate in the krewe's 2014 Silver Anniversary Parade and to recognize you.Can you believe it has been almost 25 years since ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Shreveport Times ]

Entities: Clarence Darrow, Randle T. Moore, John T. Scopes, Susan Scott, Jeff Little

First Reported May 08 2012 - Updated May 08 2012 - 1 Documents

Lynbrook High School

Lynbrook HS Drama Club Reenacts 'Inherit the Wind'

Tension hung heavy in the air as the Lynbrook High School Drama Club transported audiences to a 1920's Tennessee courtroom in the heat of July to reenact the timeless drama of Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the Wind .The play, which debuted ... [ Published May 08 2012 by Lynbrook Patch ]

Entities: Tim Keegan, Henry Drummond, John T. Scopes, Jerome Lawrence, Lynbrook High School

First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Chris Matthews

Obama Foolin' on Fallon while Failing America

It may be that the crowds of youth Obama is appealing to by appearing on Jimmy Fallon's show, and in interviews in Rolling Stone Magazine, are all he's got. Taxpayers, people at the gas pumps, veterans, Solyndra workers, Arizona ranchers, Governors, those ... [ Published May 07 2012 by Post Chronicle ]

Entities: Chris Matthews, Scopes Trial, Flat Earth, Michael Steele, Evolution

First Reported May 03 2012 - Updated May 03 2012 - 1 Documents

No harm in questioning 'established' science

Editorial commentary Recent contributions Commentary archive From the RoundTable blog Read the latest entries Credit scores Thank heaven for Tennessee. You may have seen the news that Tennessee's legislature recently passed a law to protect teachers who ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Roanoke Times ]

Entities: Evolution, Global Warming/Climate Change, Sediment, American Civil Liberties Union, Mutation

First Reported Apr 29 2012 - Updated Apr 29 2012 - 1 Documents

Blame the voters for the Capitol show that will not end (By Ricky Thomason)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama _ Welcome in my friends to the show that never ends. The 2012 edition of the predictable posse of populist poltroonery is set to parade through Montgomery straight on to Goat Hill.There are more elephants than Tarzan could call. The ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by al.com ]

Entities: Atheism, Pro-Life, Democracy, Scopes Trial, H. L. Mencken

First Reported Apr 23 2012 - Updated Apr 23 2012 - 1 Documents

TIME Archives: The Scopes Trial

Scene. In the fastnesses of Tennessee, the quiet of dawn is split asunder by wailing screams from a steam siren. It is the Dayton sawmill, waking up villagers and farmers for miles around. From 5 until 6:30 the blasts continue. The hamlet and the fantastic ... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Time ]

Entities: Scopes Trial, Dayton (Tennessee, United States), Pamphleteer

First Reported Apr 11 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 5 Documents

Tennessee ‘Monkey Bill’ Becomes Law, Allows 'Alternatives' To Evolution

Tennessee Gov. William Haslam allowed a bill to pass Wednesday permitting teachers to discuss creationism and intelligent design as alternatives alongside evolution inside classrooms. Critics of the bill say it amounts to unconstitutional promotion of ... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by International Business Times ]

Entities: Evolution, Religion, Bill Dunn, Creationism

First Reported Apr 11 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 7 Documents

Law allows creationism to be taught in Tenn. public schools

A bill that allows Tennessee public school teachers to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories such as evolution will become law this month after the governor refused to sign or veto the measure, s Valerie Strauss reports.Supporters of the ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Washington Post ]

Entities: Creationism, Eugenie Scott, Evolution

Quotes

...lawyer to champion the rights of workers, blacks and political outcasts against big business, Jim Crow and corrupt officials," Richey said. "His wit and agnosticism marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians" Richey said

Out& About: Gemini captain already planning 2014 anniversary ball [Shreveport Times - May 09 2012]

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US behind curve in accepting evolution science [ Published 6 hours ago by Advocate Messenger ]
Background behind play is intriguing [ Published May 17 2012 by Wilkes Journal Patriot ]
Come To Greg Rabb’s Defense [ Published May 13 2012 by Jamestown Post-Journal ]
HARDWARE CITY HISTORY: Renowned actor and city ... [ Published May 12 2012 by NewBritainHerald.com ]
Out& About: Gemini captain already planning 201... [ Published May 09 2012 by Shreveport Times ]
Lynbrook HS Drama Club Reenacts 'Inherit the Wind' [ Published May 08 2012 by Lynbrook Patch ]
Obama Foolin' on Fallon while Failing America [ Published May 07 2012 by Post Chronicle ]
No harm in questioning 'established' science [ Published May 03 2012 by Roanoke Times ]
The Great Spectacle Returns [ Published May 02 2012 by Texas Observer ]
Ex-JPL employee contends beliefs got him fired [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Los Angeles Times ]
Computer specialist contends his views cost him... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Los Angeles Times ]
Blame the voters for the Capitol show that will... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by al.com ]
Jack Hassard: Creationism Creeps Into Louisiana... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Teacher Magazine ]
TIME Archives: The Scopes Trial [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Time ]
Elizabeth Marincola: Science Needs Nonpartisan ... [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Huffington Post ]
War waged on religious rights [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Current-Argus ]
Police make arrest in last night's murder [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Flyer Group ]
AHS Drama Club stages historically-based produc... [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Flyer Group ]
A Visit to Monkey Town [ Published Apr 17 2012 by BBC ]
George Zimmerman and 10 other supposed 'trials ... [ Published Apr 16 2012 by The Week Magazine ]
Tennessee Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students... [ Published Apr 15 2012 by Care2 ]
Tennessee?s ?Monkey Bill? constitutional? [ Published Apr 15 2012 by Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles ]
MY TURN: Too much monkey business [ Published Apr 13 2012 by WMCTV.com ]
Tennessee Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Think Progress ]
Todd Wood, the Disco. 'tute, and the Monkey Bil... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed ]
Stranger than Friction [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Trinidad Guardian ]
Religion in schools a debate without end [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Morris County Daily Record ]
Tennessee ‘Monkey Bill’ Becomes Law, Allows 'Al... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by International Business Times ]
Teaching Evolution Just Got Tougher in Tennessee [ Published Apr 12 2012 by LiveScience.com ]
Pretty Sure It’s Already Divisive [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Cato @ Liberty ]

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Tennessee Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Think Progress ] Like any state legislature dealing with 8 percent unemployment and thousands of its residents facing disenfranchisement , the Tennessee Senate is targeting the menace of underage hand-holding. Last week, the Senate passed SB 3310, a bill ...
Todd Wood, the Disco. 'tute, and the Monkey Bil... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed ] Todd Wood is a professor at Bryan College, in Dayton, TN. Dayton, you'll recall, was the home of the Scopes trial, and Bryan College was named after Scopes's prosecutor, William Jennings Bryan, and was founded in part to carry on Bryan's anti-evolution ...
Pretty Sure It’s Already Divisive [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Cato @ Liberty ] By Neal McCluskey When you’ve been fighting over the same thing for well-nigh 90 years, there’s a good chance some new policy won’t suddenly make it divisive. Nonetheless, that’s what an L.A. Times article , citing critics, suggests about a new law ...
Tennessee Law Allows Creationism in Classrooms [ Published Apr 11 2012 by Taegan Goddard's Political Wire ] Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) said he will allow a bill that encourages classroom debate over evolution to become law without his signature, "a symbolic move that signals his opposition but allows the measure to be added to the state code," the Tennessean ...
Tennessee opens door to creationism in schools [ Published Apr 11 2012 by Raw Story ] A law to allow public school teachers to challenge the scientific consensus on issues like climate change and evolution will soon take effect in Tennessee.State governor Bill Haslam allowed the bill — passed by the state House and Senate — to become law ...