An Interesting Artcle

It is about the "Scopes" trials over the teaching of evolution in schools, argued by giants of oratory and law William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. As a strongly agnostic teen when we studied it in school I was intensly interested and Darrows final argument was strangely compelling enough for me to be reborn a year or so later by allowing reconcilliation between God and an evolving creation,in my mind. There were plenty of hard core creationists in my family and their friends,Southern Babtist, and I knew too much about dinosaurs and geology to buy that. Then I heard a talk through Young Life about not limiting the Lord and his power from someone that could have been me that had been reborn recently.I took Christ's hand soon after that and never looked back.

The Evolving Lesson of the Scopes Trial

By Dr. Daniel Brown
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This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Scopes Trial, the original trial of the century. Civility, not a survival-of-the-fittest demeanor, marked the proceedings. It's not a bad precedent for our U.S. Senators to follow in their deliberations over U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Judge John Roberts.
Why, after eight decades, does this historic trial continue to resonate with Americans? The standard reply is that the battle between evolution and creationism is still being fought. That may be true, in part, but it is a simplified, if not mistaken, conclusion.