6.++Fundamentalism

=__Fundamentalism__=
 * 1) __**//Fundamentalism//**__ - Popular movement of the 1920s based on literal interpretation of the Bible.
 * 2) **//__The Scopes Trial__//** - Pitted fundamentalists against evolutionists.
 * 3) The trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American Society.
 * 4) Tennessee had a law that forbid the teaching of evolution in public schools, and John T. Scopes, a teacher in Tennessee, was being prosecuted for teaching evolution in his science class in Dayton, Tennessee.
 * 5) **//__William Jennings Bryan__//**, an extremely famous lawyer and politician, headed the prosecution.
 * 6) He said that teaching evolution in public schools would ruin the youth of America by damaging their faith in God.
 * 7) The trial was covered world wide in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio.
 * 8) In the end Scopes was found guilty and the Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution was upheld.
 * 9) The debate over evolution versus creationism still rages on today and is still an issue in public schools.

William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Source: []