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Scopes Monkey Trial

Watchman on the Wall
Watchman on the Wall
Episode • Jul 11 • 28m
The summer heat of July 1925 brought a fiery debate over teaching evolutionary theory in public school classrooms. This famous court case became popularly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Sadly, the facts of the case got lost to fiction as the years rolled by. What really happened in Dayton, Tennessee, 100 years ago? How was it a harbinger of court cases in the 1960s, and another Tennessee court case that caught national attention in 2025? Pastors Larry Spargimino and Josh Davis discuss these transformational topics on today's episode.

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