The trial in 1925 of John Scopes, a biology teacher in Tennessee, for defying a state lawIs a fundamental concept of Luthernism and is contrasted by Luther with the Gospel. For Luther, the law consists of God’s commands regarding how one... more forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Skeptical journalists publicized the trial leading to a cultural disaster for fundamentalists. The Scopes “Monkey Trial” is a publicity disaster for fundamentalism, and initiates anti-intellectualism within the Fundamentalist movement.
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