...chapter in a debate over the teaching of evolution dating back to the Scopes trial, in which Tennessee biology teacher John T. Scopes was fined $100 for violating a state law against teaching evolution. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court...

...newspapermen sat cramped for 15 days in a small-town courtroom in Dayton, Tenn. At the eye of the legal storm was John T. Scopes, a likable football coach and science teacher who was found guilty of breaking a Tennessee law that made it illegal...

...go head to head with three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. At the eye of the legal storm was John T. Scopes, 24, a likable football coach and general science teacher one year removed from the University of Kentucky. He...

...are being reared at home to believe that God created man as he is. The man depicted on the poster is supposed to be John T. Scopes, who was tried at Rhea County Courthouse 75 years ago for breaking a Tennessee law that barred teaching "any theory...

...hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression. 1925: John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1942: Sales of sugar resumed in the United...

...has descended from a lower order of animals." The defendant, who was eventually convicted, was football coach John T. Scopes. He only substituted as a biology teacher and possibly never taught evolution, but agreed to be prosecuted as a...

...courtrooms and schools for 75 years. The most famous skirmish was in Dayton, Tenn., in 1925, when high school teacher John T. Scopes was charged with breaking a state law that barred teaching "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation...