Q The primary issues of the Scope Trial were education and science v. religion. What were the broader social implications? What did this trial reveal about the American public at the time? How are these issues relevant today?
The Scopes Trial or the Monkey Trial was a scientific experiment done by John T. Scopes, a Tennessee based biology teacher who challenged the religious ideas regarding the origins of the humans by proving that humans are evolved versions of monkeys. He was tried in the court of Tennessee for violating the Butler Law that prevented any teacher from teaching about the human evolution in Tennessee.
