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Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial

Girls from the Dayton area display monkey doll souvenirs at the courthouse.

July 5, 2005 Eighty years ago, in July 1925, the mixture of religion, science and the public schools caught fire in Dayton, Tenn. The Scopes trial — or "Monkey Trial," as it was called — dominated headlines across the country. NPR looks back at the Scopes trial, the events that led up to it and its aftermath.

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Scopes 2: Arkansas' Creationism Trial

July 5, 2005 The battle between evolution and creationism played out in a Little Rock courtroom in 1981. It foreshadowed issues that still play out today.

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