79th Anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial
From Scopes Guilty, Fined $100, Scores Law; Benediction Ends Trial, Appeal Starts; Darrow Answers Nine Bryan Questions:
Huston Smith, in Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, debunks the popular myth of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Here's a summary of Smith's argument from The humanist spirit in the third millennium: notes from a lecture by Dr. Huston Smith:
From Scopes Guilty, Fined $100, Scores Law; Benediction Ends Trial, Appeal Starts; Darrow Answers Nine Bryan Questions:
Huston Smith, in Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, debunks the popular myth of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Here's a summary of Smith's argument from The humanist spirit in the third millennium: notes from a lecture by Dr. Huston Smith:
"[The Scopes Monkey Trial] is a good example of 'news handling' vs. what really happened. This was a test case, a cause taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). (Consider that Smith is a member of the ACLU) There was a lot of financial incentive for the little town of Dayton, TN to get involved. Furthermore, Scopes was not even a biology teacher. The famous film "Inherit the Wind" depicts the town as 'inhuman' toward Scopes, but this is not true. William Jennings Bryan was depicted as a crude fundamentalist, and he was not a fundamentalist at all. In fact, he believed in the 'old earth' theory, and his primary mission was stamping out Social Darwinism."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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