andrewducker: (Monkey in charge)
andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-06-22 08:58 pm

Your questions answered!

The candidates for Miss USA answer the burning question of 86 years ago: should evolution be taught in schools?



I am, by the way, incredibly impressed by Google's powers of guesswork:

[identity profile] sigmonster.livejournal.com 2011-06-22 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Best reportage of the Scopes trial I've read is probably Mencken: pages 215-236 of the Johns Hopkins University Press paperback edition of "Heathen Days", ISBN 0-8018-5339-7.

Amongst other things he argues, from personal acquaintance with Darrow, that Darrow wanted a guilty verdict - the point was to impugn the law and to utterly discredit Bryan as a political figure, not to get an acquittal. Seems a bit hard on Scopes...