John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

Rarely had a trial attracted such drama, amusement and frenzy as the 1920s Scopes Trial. Few had ever produced more column inches.  July 21st marks the ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains strong.

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

With a massive ark and museum, he spreads creationism a century after Scopes trial. He’s not alone Polls generally show that somewhere between 1 in 6 and 1 in 3 Americans hold beliefs consistent ...

A bill to repeal the Common Core education standards in Ohio has ignited a new debate about an old issue: whether schools should be allowed to teach creationism.

A lot of people assume that creationism and science are completely opposed, but the reality actually isn’t that simple. While extreme views exist on both sides, many scientists, theologians, and ...