Eighty-nine years after a Dayton jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the people of this town are still acting out the creationist debate, all in order to put on a show. The lesson of the Scopes Trial is not that some people are stupid science-deniers. Itâs that scientific fact can all too easily be spun up into performances and archetypal dramas. John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience. Dayton was not a particularly religious town.
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10 Most Conservative Colleges in the U.S. This is a list of the 10 most conservative universities in the country as compiled by Niche Rankings. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Liberal bias in higher education has been a longstanding accusation by people on the right going back to William F. Buckley's 1951 book, God and Man at Yale.