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    Shadi Ahmed Syska SCIE 2320 02/06/2017 Judgment Day Intelligent Design On Trial At the beginning of the Video‚ It is talked about Dover school where is in Pennsylvania. Dover school doesn’t believe an evolution. Dover doesn’t believe that Human Was a monkey. They said that unbelievable even if the science says that. Dover has found some picture which is about the related between Monkey and Human‚ but he destroyed that. Many people said that concept means people are stupid because monkey

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    Arrogance The Trial by Franz Kafka chronicles the arrest of a worldly‚ young bank official‚ Joseph K. for an unknown crime and traces his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and untouchable Court. Although the novel is critically acclaimed for satirizing the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy of Kafka’s time it also seems to be criticizing the arrogance of the common people. Joseph K.’s eventual downfall is not just due to the in comprehensible judicial system but can be attributed to his

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    Hannover Jahrgang 11 * * 1.Semester * * * * * * * * FACHARBEIT * * * im Leistungskurs Englisch * * * * * * * The Scopes Trail and its heritage – * * the influence of fundamental Christian ideology * * on public life in the US * * * * * * * * * * * * Verfasser: Moritz Dittmar * * Kursleiter:

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    MONKEY VS MOSES Dayton‚ Tennessee. High school football coach and substitute science teacher‚ John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating the Butler Act. The jury did not hear the defense testimony‚ as the judge declared that all of the defense testimony on the Bible was irrelevant‚ and the jury should not be allowed to hear it. The judge declared that the Bible in question was the official Bible of the State of Tennessee‚ and that this was the King James Version. The defense attorney‚ Clarence

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    The relationship between religion and science has always been complicated‚ with many scholars having very separate ideas. There are three ways to look at this relationship; Some scholars and religious groups‚ such as ultra Darwinist Richard Dawkins and literalist Christians believe in what has come to be known as the conflict model‚ when one believes that one dominates the other. The convergence model argues that science and religion work together harmoniously‚ the distinct model argues that science

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    Mock Trial was a great experience for me since it was my first time doing it in my life. My role was an officer called‚ Officer Low. Officer Low has been on the local police force for eight and a half years. I think my role was not easy because I had to memorize all my lines in order to answer the lawyer’s question. Also‚ I had to know where the offender Wally Brogue was standing and where the radio‚ beer and marijuana were on the diagram of David Benning’s and Sara Volsky’s apartment. Plus‚ I had

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    one hand‚ William Jennings Bryan‚ three-time presidential candidate‚ argued for the prosecution. The narrow legal argument offered by the prosecution was that Scopes’ guilt was a matter of incontestable fact and logic: The state had outlawed the teaching of evolution‚ Scopes admitted publicly that he had taught evolution‚ therefore Scopes was guilty. Also‚ after the World War I.‚ Bryan proposed that the Darwinism (he‚ actually‚ meant Social Darwinism) was behind excessive militarism and imperialism

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    strong in the American South. The “Scopes Trial” was held in Dayton‚ Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925. In there was a big jury to decide the fate of John Scopes who was 24. John Scopes was a high school biology teacher and part time football coach who was charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution. The guilt or innocence of John Scopes‚ and the constitutionality of Tennessee anti evolution statute‚ mattered a little. The whole point of this trial is emerged through its interpretation

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    John Scopes‚ a substitute high school teacher in Tennessee‚ was accused of violating the state’s Butler Act‚ which stated that the teaching of human evolution was forbidden in any state-funded school. During the trialScopes held his own‚ and was questioned on only biblical stories of God‚ rather than what seemed reasonable to him‚ which was Darwinism. Unable to fight back‚ Scopes was fined $100.00‚ but rather than backing down from the trial in the beginning‚ Mr. John Scopes fought fire

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    supporters. Inherit the Wind further expanded on this idea by having numerous people gather in the center of town with anti-evolution and pro creationist signs at the beginning of the film. After the first the day of the trial reverend Brown had a sermon where John Thomas Scopes was damned to hell. Even though some of these parts are exaggerated in the movie for dramatic effect it still paints a clear picture about how people in this town value their

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