Eugene Chaffin (Bob Jones University) is quoted in the Anniston Star article along with his board of director’s position in the Creation Research Society!
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A brief history of creationism and its opposition to evolutionary theory
by Brett Buckner
The Anniston Star, p. 1B & 6B
February 14, 2009
Dayton, Tenn., was a quiet, rural community and perhaps the least likely place in America for a revolution.
But in the summer 1925, when high school biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution, Dayton became ground zero for a cultural upheaval, the impact of which continues to reverberate in courtrooms and classrooms across the country.
The Scopes “Monkey Trial,” as it became known was a media circus — complete with dancing chimpanzees on the courthouse lawn — that focused America’s attention on a dramatic, often absurd showdown between two legal titans.
Clarence Darrow, defending the biology teacher, and William Jennings Bryan, heading the prosecution, waged an epic debate over the rightful place of religion and science in public schools.
