John Thomas Scopes (3 agosto 1900 - 21 ottobre 1970) era un insegnante americano. Ha conseguito una laurea in giurisprudenza presso l'Università di Kentucky nel 1924 e si trasferì a Dayton dove egli ha avuto un posto di lavoro come la borsa RHEA County High School di allenatore di calcio, e compilato come sub
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John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 - October 21, 1970) was an American teacher. He had earned a law degree at the University of Kentucky in 1924, and moved to Dayton where he took a job as the Rhea County High School's football coach, and filled in as substitute teacher when regular members of staff were off work. The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposefully incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. He was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial served its purpose of drawing intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked to Dayton to cover the big-name lawyers who had agreed to represent each side. William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential candidate for the Democrats, argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney, spoke for Scopes. The trial set modernists, who said evolution was consistent with religion, against fundamentalists who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge. The case was thus seen as both a theological contest and a trial on the veracity of modern science regarding the creation-evolution controversy. He died in 1970 at the age of 70.
