Darwinian Revolution

The Scopes Trial (1x16)

Air date: Mar 22, 2022

This lecture investigates fact and fiction in the famous Scopes anti-evolution trial in 1925. Supposedly, teacher John Scopes was persecuted, attorney Clarence Darrow rose to Scopes's defense and defeated prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, and the anti-evolution movement was discredited. There are problems with all three statements.