--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > So the Scopes trial was a case of throwing out the > baby with the bath > water? I can see that people objecting to the > nonsense of Social > Darwinism could get it conflated with biological > Darwinism, but I > didn't know it actually happened. I thought Scopes > was purely about the teaching of evolution in school.
Weeel, there mighta been a teensy bit o' good ole Southern grandstandin', don't ya know... ;) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_drugstore.html "It began over cokes and phosphates in a drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee. A little scheme to boost the local economy exploded into the trial of the century. The defendant wasn't even guilty -- but nobody cared. After all, two of America's greatest orators were coming to town. And the whole world was watching. "The story of how the Scopes trial began -- as a publicity stunt in a small town drugstore -- has fascinated people for over 75 years...It was at Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee where, in 1925, a group of town boosters hatched one of the most famous schemes in history, taking up an ACLU challenge to try Tennessee's anti-evolution law. The group believed a big trial would put their town on the map, and they conceived their plan sitting around one of Robinson's tables. According to historian Edward Larson, "Those were the days of Prohibition so the strongest thing they could drink was Coca-Cola!"... "...Reporter H. L. Mencken had his own inimitable opinion of the town and its famous drugstore. "It would be hard to imagine a more moral town than Dayton. ...There is no gambling. There is no place to dance. The relatively wicked, when they would indulge themselves, go to Robinson's drug store and debate theology..." Talk About Yer Snowballin' Maru :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
