Tag: Darwin

Podcast

21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution

21st July 2023
Tagged as: America, Christianity, Creationism, Darwin, Evolution, Law, Religion, Tennessee, Trial, USA

John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.

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24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

24th November 2022
Tagged as: Darwin, Discovery, Evolution, HMS Beagle, Natural Selection, Science

Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of science.