the trial that has rocked the world.pptx

The view on “John Scopes’trial was a victorious defeat”By Li Xiao, Zhang Jia Xiao HualinOxymoronIt was a defeat concerning the jury’s verdict and the judge’s sentence. (He got fined 100 dollars and costs.)It was a victory in and outside of the trial in every sense of word.It seemed as a defeat to John Scopes but it was a victory to the modernists, the science, the U.S., the human, and the world.Why was it a victory?The whole process of the trial.The facts which showed its final victory, namely, its great impacts.The First DayDarrow made his opening statement: “my friend the attorney-general says that John Scopes knows what he is here for.” “I know what he is here for, too… it is a mighty combination.” “Today it is the teachers…when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human kind.”A woman(fundamentalist) : “That damned infidel.”The Second DayWitnesses: 1) they called pupils to testify that John Scopes had taught them “evolutionism” but they added that they had not been contaminated. 2) a boy told them Mr. Scopes had taught that man was a mammal like cows, horses, dogs and cats.Bryan VS MaloneBryan declared: “the Christian believes that man come from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.” He thundered : “the Bible is not going…as part of a divine plan.”Applause, shouts of Amen; no fervor, no scorching.Malone’s reply: “…Mr. Bryan, with passionate spirit and enthusiasm, has given most of his life to politics.” “…the truth alwasys wins…the truth is eternal, immortal and needs no human agency to support it.”A storm of applause; ruling—no scientists to testify for the defenceAdjourning of the courtOne shop announced: DARWIN’S RIGHT-INSIDE.One entrepreneur rented a shop window to display an ape and spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder their relationship.Talks of running H.L. Menken, an editor who refered people in Dayton as yokels, were going round.The third day(cli