Truth trumps

Written by Al Barger
Published May 18, 2003

Truth is real, and it eventually wins. Just sometimes it takes awhile. On this day in history, May 18, 1967, Tennessee Governor Ellington repealed the "Monkey Law" arbitrarily forbidding the teaching of evolution that had been upheld in the infamous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.

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#1 — May 18, 2003 @ 18:04PM — Temple Stark [URL]

The personalities were amazing in the original Scopes trial. It is a case often misunderastood. Not on its base ignorance, obviously, but on legal grounds.

Good to acknowledge the dates when ignorant laws are struck down.

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