1. John scopes
He was on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. ... The Butler Act in Tennessee forbade the teaching of human evolution as written by Charles Darwin. ... The trial itself was a series of conflicts, the obvious one being evolution vs. religion. But as John Crowe Ransom notes, there were a series of tensions throughout the trial, including questions of collective vs. individual rights and academic vs. parental concerns, which have persisted in American culture since the birth of the nation. ... That there was no resolution was unsettling. ...
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