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The Trial That Rocked the World Part 1 General introduction 1. about the author: John Scopes (1900——1970) once a school-teacher in Dayton, Tennessee. Principle of the “Monkey Trial”. Later became a geologist for an oil company. 2. Backgroud: ⑴For a number of years a clash had been building up between the fundamentalist(基要主义者) and the modernists(现代主义者).③ ⑵fundamentalism was strong in Tennessee, and the state legislature had passed a law prohibiting the teaching of “any theory that denies the story of creation as taught in the Bible”④ ⑶The exits of Darwin’s evolution. ⑷John Scopes taught the