Date of Award

6-1926

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

In the discussion of any major topic, much feeling and little logic make for inevitable confusion. And so it was that when in 1925 John T. Scopes, an obscure teacher of secondary school natural sciences in Tennessee, took it upon himself to instruct his pupils in certain theories of so-called Evolution, he precipitated an argument of national scope. For on March 23d of that same year Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee had signed an Anti-Evolution bill which forbade any public school of the state ”to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

Comments

A Thesis Submitted To Fulfill The Requirements For The Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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