100 years ago today, Dayton, Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution.
It had gone exactly according to plan: Scopes and a group of local businessmen had decided to provoke the indictment in order to challenge a new Tennessee law making it a crime to teach evolution in public schools.
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