1. By: Sa’Niyah Wright, Sydney M.R, Aja Jefferson, Cheyenne Colna

2.  Christians believed the Bible was inspired by God so everything in it is true.  Christians believed God made the world and all its life forms, including humans in six days.

3.  They rejected the Charles Darwin theory.  They felt that evolution would cause dangerous social movements.

4.  Preacher led religious revivals based on the authority of the scriptures. Which rose against science.

5.  Charles Darwin was a naturalist and geologist best known for his evolutionary theory. From 1809-1882 he lived exploring the science of life  Darwin’s theory stated that plants and animals had developed over millions of years, to create life instead of God.

6.  Darwin’s 5 theories are;  Evolution – Species come and go through time, while they exist they change  Common decent – Organisms are descended from one or several common ancestors and have changed from the original.

7.  Species Multiply- Diversification of life involves groups from one species changing until they become two separate species; this has probably occurred billions of times on earth  Gradualism- Evolutionary change occurs through very small changes within populations; new species are not created suddenly  Natural Selection- Evolutionary change occurs through variation between individuals; some variants give the individual an extra chance of survival.

8.  The Scopes Trial is also known as monkey trial  In March, 1925. TN passed nations first law for it to be illegal to teach about evolution.

9.  John scopes age 24 lived in Dayton, TX.  John scopes lawyer named was Clarence Darrow. John Thomas Scopes Clarence Darrow

10.  The state attorney was William Jennings Bryan he was a Christian and believed evolution theories led to dangerous social movements.  Bryan was aware of serious difficulties with Darwinism and lack of scientific support  Bryan is one the left in the picture

11.  This trial was considered the “test case” for attacking the new law by including evolution in his curriculum.  Darrow changed his clients plead to guilty and scopes was convicted and charged with a fine of $100  1967 the supreme court struck down the TN anti- evolution law for violating the constitutions law of separation of church and state.