Inherit the Internet

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Inherit the Internet

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creationism - everything created from nothing
c/o supernatural creator - acc. Christianity, God
over 6 days theory of evolution All living
things - originated in pre-existing forms -
change over time from simple --gt more complex
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Charles Darwin -an English naturalist - wrote On
the Origin of Species (1859) - proposed the
theory of evolution by natural selection natural
selection - theory of the survival and
propagation of organisms best adapted to their
environment
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The Monkey Trial It's a SET UP! Where Dayton,
Tennessee When 1925 Who John Thomas Scopes,
Rappleyea, Robinson, Mencken, Darrow, Bryan
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William Jennings Bryan PROSECUTION - 3 time
Democratic Presidential candidate - powerful
orator (voice heard ¼ mile away!) -
anti-evolution - very religiousBible as source
of all truth
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Clarence Darrow DEFENSE - grew up defending
'heretic' father-- village atheist - social
upheavalindividual vs. powerful - society
organized injustice - volunteered to defend
Scopesbelieved in free speech and wanted to
challenge Bryan
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What - Hunters Civic Biology - Butler Law -
ACLU, advertisement in paper - town needed , saw
ad --gt plan to boost economy (SPECTACLE!) - asked
Scopesagreed because (x2)... - couldn't even
remember teaching it!
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The Outcomes Initially... - fined 100 Final
result... - appealed and not made to pay