When Evolution Went to Court - The Scopes Trial Explained

Here’s the story of the trial/publicity stunt that pinned Darwinists versus fundamentalists- The Scopes Trial. All images found in the public domain. Music by Electric Needle Room. Produced by Matt Beat. I also released a podcast about this event: #apush #1920s #evolution Once upon a time an English naturalist and geologist named Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution. Evolution, now widely accepted as a theory, used to be very controversial. It rocked the entire world, as matter of fact. It argued that all life had a common ancestor and that all life with better genetic traits adapted and reproduced so that those better traits would live on. Hey, go easy on me, I’m not a science teacher. This theory holds that humans share a common ancestor with apes and chimpanzees, and many Christian fundamentalists, who believed the Bible was literal, just couldn’t accept that explanation. Throughout the late 1800s and into the 1900s, Darwin’s t