Picture explanation- My picture that I chose to represent the scopes trial is two fish named different things, going in opposite directions. They are going different directions to show the difference of people's religion, versus the scientific way.
Documenting the importance- The Scope’s Trial is important because in 1925 a science teacher was convicted of not teaching the state’s way of evolution. The teacher violated the way to teach evolution, instead of teaching the way that led to god, and other religions, he taught the way of science. During his trial, the judge prohibited the defence of using fellow scientist as witnesses. Scope’s lawyer convinced him to change his plea and plead guilty. Scope’s was found guilty and the judge fined him $100. In the end, even though Scope’s case was pronounced guilty, it was overturned on technicality.
Fundamentalism
Picture explanation- My picture is of people protesting for Fundamentalism. The sign that this particular protester is displaying “Obey Jesus or perish”, I chose this because people who practice Fundamentalism go by …show more content…
They believe that men, women and children had specific jobs that they had to do, which were written in the bible. Most Fundamentalist believe that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. They also believed that having relaxed morals was leading to the decline of the United States. Fundamentalist fought against America’s new swing, Social Liberalism by defending what was considered the fundamentals of historic Christian teaching ways. One way that they defended what they believed in was publishing books, they published a total of 12 books. Fundamentalist also believed that they differed from other groups because they thought they were more faithful to the bible, and believing in Christianity. They even fought to make a change to stop teaching controversial theories, like