Inherit the InternetInherit the Internet

'Scope'-ing out key terms, people, and background information for Inherit the Wind

creationism:creationism:

- everything created from nothing c/o supernatural creator

- acc. Christianity, God over 6 days

theory of evolution:theory of evolution:

All living things:

- originated in pre-existing forms

- change over time from simple --> more complex

Charles DarwinCharles Darwin

-an English naturalist

- wrote On the Origin of Species (1859)

- proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection

natural selectionnatural selection

- theory of the survival and propagation

of organisms best adapted to their environment

The Monkey Trial: It's a SET UP!The Monkey Trial: It's a SET UP!

Where: Where: Dayton, Tennessee

When: When: 1925

WhoWho: John Thomas Scopes, Rappleyea, Robinson, Mencken, Darrow, Bryan

William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan

PROSECUTIONPROSECUTION

- 3 time Democratic Presidential candidate

- powerful orator (voice heard ¼ mile away!)

- anti-evolution

- very religious—Bible as source of all truth

Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow

DEFENSEDEFENSE

- grew up defending 'heretic' father--

“village atheist”

- social upheaval—individual vs. powerful

- society = “organized injustice”

- volunteered to defend Scopes—believed in free speech and wanted to challenge Bryan

WhatWhat:

- Hunters Civic Biology

- Butler Law

- ACLU, advertisement in paper

- town needed $, saw ad --> plan to boost economy (SPECTACLE!)

- asked Scopes—agreed because (x2)...

- couldn't even remember teaching it!

The Outcomes:The Outcomes:

Initially...Initially...

- fined $100

Final result...Final result...

- appealed and not made to pay