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John Scopes probably never taught evolution. Recruited to be a defendant, Scopes was a football coach and only a substitute biology teacher. He had to prep his students before they could testify against him, and when questioned in court, all were foggy about Darwinism. (One boy couldn’t remember anything Scopes had said about “anthropoid apes” but did recall he had once mentioned Tarzan of the Apes.) A thesis of Monkey Business is that there’s a lot about the Scopes Trial that’s not what it seem...
This is an excellent book not only about the Scopes' Trail but about the theory of evolution. One of the authors, Marvin Olasky, is the editor of the newsweekly, World. He is also one of our greatest Christian thinkers. If you are interested in learning more about the Scopes trial or about the theory of evolution this is the book for you. As you may know there were two famous lawyers involved in the trial, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. The trial took place in Dayton, TN. The colleg...
The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial has come to define the evolution vs. creationism debate like no other event in American history. It was supposedly going to "settle" the question once and for all. It was also intended as an intellectual battle royal between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, two of the greatest minds of the early 20th century. According to this book, the reality was a lot less interesting.The American Civil Liberties Union was a new liberal organization in New York, looking...
Let me first start this review by saying how excited I was to read this book. And, overall, it was a great book and had so much useful information in it. I just had a hard time getting into the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial because of mainly how the first half of the book was organized. The way the authors organized this book made it hard to follow the actual contents of the trial—too many chapters were interwoven and digressed from the story. While intending them to be useful (and they were
One of the most in-depth and fair histories of the 1925 evolution trial in Dayton Tennessee pitting William Jennings Bryan and his faith against Clarence Darrow and his agnosticism. Later chapters of the book include discussions of the concept of intelligent design, the movement itself, and other Scopes-like trials.
The first third was interesting history, the middle third came off a bit like whining right wing Christian politicians and the last third had a decent summary of recent attempts to help intelligent design become a viable alternative to evolution.
this book jumped around a lot form arguments for and against evolution to the trial, I was looking for history and got a thesis on Darwinism
The first 20 chapters deserve 3 stars, after that it gets a little too preachy for my tastes. I was reading for the history, not the religious debate. Overall, I found it disappointing.
