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Science => Biology => Topic started by: Unbeliever on November 13, 2007, 01:39:21 pm

Title: Scopes Monkey Trial
Post by: Unbeliever on November 13, 2007, 01:39:21 pm
Clarence Darrow, during the Scopes Monkey Trial
(http://www.sitemason.com/files/eXL98k/scopestrial.jpg)

One of the best movies ever, Inherit the Wind (http://www.filmsite.org/inhe.html) - it's got some great quotes, too! Here's one of my favorites:
Quote from: Spencer Tracy to Fredric March, in "Inherit the Wind",
.... all shine and no substance. You say you're giving people hope? I think you're stealing their hope. As long as the pre-requisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry, and hate.....I say to Hell with it!!






As if the place didn't become enough of a laughingstock in 1925!

Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" Found in Smithsonian Archives (http://www.siarchives.si.edu/research/scopes.html)

QuoteIn May 1925, a group of Dayton civic leaders met at F.E. Robinson's Drugstore (sign visible on right) and decided to challenge Tennessee's new statute against the teaching of evolution. One motivation for holding the trial in Dayton was to revive the town's flagging economy.


They didn't care about evolution! It was all about money!

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Here are some more good quotes:
Memorable Quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/quotes)
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Title: Re: Scopes Monkey Trial
Post by: Angolo on May 22, 2008, 11:26:58 am
You can watch the movie Inherit The Wind (http://religionismanmade.blogspot.com/2008/05/movie-inherit-wind-from-1960.html) about the Scopes Monkey Tiral online. The movie is with Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly & Stanley Kramer