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History class took Laura and I to the Scopes Trial today. I learned a lot that I didn’t know before. There are a lot of  myths out there on what really happened, but that’s a whole other blog… The closing statement of William Jennings Bryan, died five days later after the Scopes trail. Perhaps the cruel tactics of Darrow, the ridicule of the press, and the realization that many people had fallen for evolution took it’s toll on him. Clarence Darrow resorted to emotionalism, ridicule, humiliation, and circular reasoning.  Darrow called the people of Tennessee ignorant and backward so many times that many of them started professing a belief in evolution just to show they were really intelligent. Here are parts of Bryan’s closing statement: …Religion is not hostile to learning; Christianity has … Read entire article »