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In 1925, Tennessee teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution in a public school
biology class. It was ruled that he violated "The Butler Act," which read (in part): "(lt) shall be unlawful for any teacher in ...public
schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that
denies the Story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower
order of animals
Though the Butler Act remained part
ght have it been legally challenged?
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The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law introduced by Tennessee House of Representatives member John Washington Butler prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922, having been signed into law by Tennessee governor Austin Peay. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.