News

100 years after Scopes Monkey Trial, a new religious culture war emerges in Oklahoma
Oklahoma is forcing courts – as they did in Tennessee in 1925 – to wrestle with the question of how much religion is ...
Why monkeys—and humans—can’t look away from social conflict
Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they ...
Religion Dispatches4dOpinion
Of Monkeys and Men — 100 Years since the Scopes Trial and Still Missing the Bigger Picture on Science v. Religion
A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for ...
One in four Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey
Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...
In historic 'Monkey Town USA,' residents embrace the past and plan for the future
For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...
Neuroscience News3d
Familiar Faces and Fights: What Monkeys Like to Watch Most
A new study reveals that long-tailed macaques, like humans, are most captivated by videos featuring social conflict and ...
1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion
In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...
The Christian Science Monitor8d
Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity
During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...
Study offers glimpse into how monkeys—and machines—process images
Yale researchers have discovered a process in the primate brain that sheds new light on how visual systems work and could ...
University of Chicago News4d
The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
The Christian Science Monitor8dOpinion
A transformative moment in American journalism
The nation’s first “trial of the century” was not just a conflict between science and religion.