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Scopes trial


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Pronunciation: / skəʊps ˈtrʌɪəl /

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  1. evolution a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
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    1. a famous US court case in which John Scopes, a BIOLOGY teacher, was taken to a court of law in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of EVOLUTION, because this was against the law in the state of Tennessee, where the story of the CREATION as told in the Old Testament of the Bible had to be taught in state schools. He was defended by the lawyer Clarence DARROW, but was found guilty.
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