EUGENIE C. SCOTT: Debate and Lose Critique

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The Scopes "Monkey Trial":
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John T. Scopes was a science teacher who taught evolution.

The ministers of the town had him arrested.

The ACLU did its best to get him acquitted, but failed.

The whole town was committed to biblical creationism.

There was great friction between townspeople and reporters.

The main issue of the trial was Constitutional freedom of speech.

William Jennings Bryan wanted Scopes fined severely as a lesson.

Bryan wanted to use the trial in a conservative political counter-revolution.

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EUGENIE C. SCOTT:
"*Avoid Debates*. If your local campus Christian fellowship asks you to
"defend evolution," please decline. Public debates rarely change many
minds; creationists stage them mainly in the hope of drawing large
sympathetic audiences. Have you ever watched the Harlem Globetrotters
play the Washington Federals? The Federals get off some good shots, but
who remembers them? The purpose of the game is to see the Globetrotters
beat the other team. And you probably will get beaten. In such a forum,
scientific experts often try to pack a semester-long course into an hour,
hoping to convey the huge sweep of evolution, the towering importance of
its ideas, the masses of evidence in its favor. Creationist debaters know
better. They come well prepared with an arsenal of crisp, clear,
superficially attractive antievolutionary arguments--fallacious ones, yes,
but far too many for you to answer in the time provided. Even if you win
the debate in some technical sense, most of the audience will still walk
away from it convinced that your opponent has a great new science that
the schools should hear about. Teachers have enough problems. Above all
else, do no harm." (Scott E.C, "Monkey Business," The Sciences, New
York Academy of Sciences, January/February 1996, Vol. 36, No. 1; pp.20-
25, p.25. Emphasis in original)