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Peer reviewedMena-Werth, Jose – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
In 1925, Williams Jennings Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska and a former Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spent two agonizing weeks defending his religious faith that cost him his life a month after. Bryan was a prosecutor of high school teacher John Scopes, who had violated Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution.…
Descriptors: Evolution, Religion, Secondary School Teachers, Court Litigation
