a
reference to the 1925 trial of
John T. Scopes (1900- 1970), a
biology teacher in Daytona, Tennessee, USA, who had
broken a
law by teaching the
theory of
evolution in his
class, instead of the
theory of creation. The
theory of
evolution holds that
man descended and
evolved from the lower
life forms to what he is today. The
theory of creation
states that
God created the first
man and woman,
Adam and Eve, and all men and women are their direct descendants. The
law in Tennessee at that
time prohibited the teaching of anything that would contradict the accepted biblical interpretation of
man's creation. The trial was one of the most famous and controversial in
American history, due to both its
subject matter and the celebrated lawyers for