The Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 3

This is Part 3 of a three part series.  The first two are from my article on the Scopes Trial from Origins Research associated with Access Research Network:

https://arn.org/

“The Scopes Trial and After,” Origins Research (later Origins & Design), Vol. 2, No. 2, Sep-Oct 1979, pp. 5,6.

 

Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 1:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-scopes-monkey-trial-part-1.html

 

Scopes Monkey Trial - Part 2:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-scopes-monkey-trial-part-2.html

 

My #1 book I plug on this topic is Monkey Business by Marvin Olasky (World Mag):

https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Business-Story-Scopes-Trial/dp/0805431578

 

Christ taught that we live in a youthful world, so that eliminates #Darwinism right away.  Jesus' AGE verses: Mk. 10:6, Mk. 13:19-20, Lk. 11:50,51.  The Butler Act references "the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible."  At the beginning of the trial only Genesis Chapter One was read!  The Second chapter of Genesis gives the details of Man's Origin.  Furthermore, there are tons of verses throughout the Bible that relate to the "Divine creation of man."

 

What is mankind that you are mindful of them,

    human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels

    and crowned them with glory and honor.

You made them rulers over the works of your hands;

    you put everything under their feet. (Ps. 8:4-6)

 

But at the beginning of creation God "made them male and female." (Mk. 10:6)

 

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them [including Man], but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Ex. 20:11)

 

Man is made in God's Image and has Dominion.  Adam and Eve were made at the beginning of the world, not millions of years later.  Our work week parallels Creation Week - no room for Deep Time.

In 1923, Oklahoma banned texts that contained the "Darwin Theory of Creation versus the Bible Account of Creation" (Scopes Monkey Trial - Moore & McComas, p. 11).

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/the-scopes-monkey-trial-9781467116480

Moore & McComas fail to include George McCready Price (d. 1963) in their index.  If Price had testified at the trial, there may have been a vastly different outcome - he was away in England.  Price wrote Evolutionary Geology and the New Catastrophism, Were the Fossils Contemporary?, Report on Evolution and many other works.

As for Darrow's Questions ...

Jonah and the Whale ("big fish"):  

https://www.icr.org/content/what-really-swallowed-jonah

Joshua's long day - historical evidence:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3224-years-later-scientists-see-first-ever-recorded-eclipse-in-joshuas-battle/

Global Flood:

https://www.amazon.com/Earths-Catastrophic-Past-Creation-2014-10-03/dp/B01FGKZJOA

Early Civilizations:

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ancient-Man-Revelations-Ruins/dp/0890518661

Comparative Religion:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_firingline-billbuckley-williamabrfabrbuckleyjr-activity-7261866247930195969-ULS9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

The Tower of Babel:

https://answersingenesis.org/tower-of-babel/

The Earth's Age:

Is a Young Earth Possible? - How Science and History Point to a Youthful World and Why it Matters ★★★★½

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

YES - Young Earth Science ★★★★

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

Adam's Rib:

https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/why-did-god-make-eve-from-part-of-adam

Cain's wife:

He married his sister (Gen. 5:4).

The Days of #Creation_Week

https://www.academia.edu/1561970/A_Defense_of_Literal_Days_in_the_Creation_Week

The tempting serpent:  

The Lord made Balaam's donkey talk, so why not a snake?  See Numbers 22:21-35.

 

The Transcript of the Scopes Monkey Trial, ed. by Anthony Horvath:

https://www.amazon.com/Transcript-Scopes-Monkey-Trial-Unabridged/dp/1947844415

 

Evolutionism Begets Evolutionism (Dr. Nathan Jeanson):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_the-real-reason-why-99-of-scientists-reject-activity-7390077682115538944-QjwB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

Please check out my books:

https://totalyouth.us

 

In one article on the Scopes Trial, they confuse Creationists with Flat-Earthers:

https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2023/09/the-scopes-monkey-trial/

 

Young Earthers are not Flat Eartherz >>  

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-real-truth-about-flat-earth.html

 

How Do We Know the Bible is True? - Ham & Hodge:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Know-Bible-True/dp/0890516332

 

There have been a number of Scopes Trial Centennial Events during this year:

https://www.chattanoogan.com/2024/4/11/485666/Scopes-Trial-Centennial-Set-For-2025.aspx

https://artsci.utk.edu/scopes-trial-centennial-celebration/

 

A Word from the #Loyal_Opposition

https://youtu.be/m_zjT67_1o4

 

Monkey Business - Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers & Marilyn Monroe:

https://youtu.be/gH_qxtLPM9k

 

graphic: Scopes Monkey Trial >>

https://chatgpt.com/c/6907e591-7b7c-8333-95e1-1dd3438afbd2

 

#Scopes_Monkey_Trial #Henry_Morris #Destination1925 #ScopesTrial #Origins #Genesis #Mk10_6 #Mk13_19&20 #Lk11_50&51 #Butler_Act #OK #Oklahoma #BlownAway ♪ #Go_Thunder ‼ #evo #Crevo #Destiny ↑ #controversy #YoungEarth #Young_Earth_Science #YES #trial #Dayton  #Tennessee #Year1925 #WilliamJenningsBryan #Clarence_Darrow #History #His_Story ╬

Westminster Wasp - Ur Chillin' Mii #Smallz ‼

 ** John "Creativity" Cleese Invents New Religion **

https://youtu.be/c3NF349aEHM

Have you asked the Lord for a new Mercedes?

Is this how you spell blessings?

   ¥€$

Do you drink Yin-Yang-Tangh with ur #ProsperityPancakes ?

Blessed are the #poor ... so, I guess they're OK ??

In contrast ...

Pacific Garden Mission/Unshackled:

https://www.pgm.org

https://youtu.be/AK2DacdN7vA

Unshackled Apologetics:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/07/unshackled-apologetics.html

 

** Ken Ham and #YoursTruly Conspire to Take Over US **

Ken "Six Daze" Ham is a former science teacher from #AussieLand  

With his vast and deep knowledge of hi-tek gizmos, he'll be able to infiltrate the CIA/MLB/FBI/ROG/IDK & Minnie Utherz.

Step Number 1) ... buy the New York Times (fmr. New Amsterdam Daily Gossip) since NFO = PWR.

Sadly, one of our top executives changed his name from Ochs to Oakes ... spooky huh #SprechenSieDeutsch ? [1]

Jay "Biological Essentialism" Hall had the privilege to interview Maya Angelou:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2020/02/maya-angelou-new-age-prophetess.html

He's also been to the #WhiteHouse twice* and the Pentagon once** ... things that make you go "hmmm" right?!

OR ... things that make you go mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm:

https://youtu.be/eTeg1txDv8w

Next, they will take over the Public Skewels, heeding the warning of AA Hodge from 1886: "The United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and wide instrument for the propagation of Atheism which the world has ever seen."

https://teachdiligently.com/articles/aa-hodge-public-schools-are-the-engine-of-atheism

Their other future plans are known only to the #Illuminati (Cleveland Branch) and the "Brothers of Dave."

 

** OPRAH endorses "John of God" fake New Age healer ** [2]

João Teixeira de Faria (John of God) is a Brazilian faith healer.

He was on OPRAH and gained quite a following.  

James Randi and Joe Nickell exposed his psychic healing flim-flam.

Despite his 15 minutes of fame and fortunate publicity, Oprah’s spiritual healer has been sentenced to 99 years in prison.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/07/oprahs-faith-healer-get-99-years-for-raping-8-girls-and-women-allegedly-600-more-victims/

So, children, what is the moral of this story?

   1) get on the OPRAH show

   2) win a new car ‼ ‼

   3) OR ... go2 #Jail for 99 years.

#Film@11 #Year99

 

** Roger "haha" Brownie-Howardz offers L.A.F. Degree **

One student said, "You're chilln' me Pastor Smalls!"

L.A.F. = Laughter And Frivolity  

Learn how to have a laugh fit in ur own home!

Roll around between the pews & howl @ the MOon!

Roger's Bible School is in Beverly Hills, FL***

Scholarships are available ...

https://www.riverbibleinstitute.com/

His church is known as "The Crick."

Roger also writes on politix ...

https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Under-Microscope-Rodney-Howard-Browne-ebook/dp/B087H79CGP

For those of you living in #SouthAsia ☺☺☺>>

https://youtu.be/2NVaMZK_Zlg

#HumorMii_ThisBatman !

 

* as a tourist

** my step-dad worked there

*** my bro-n-law lives in BH, it's a wonderful town!

ROG = Rea7 0rigin@L GanksTα

 

Notes:

1) The Trust by Susan Tifft & Alex S. Jones (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1999), p. 117.

2) Oppz ! ... this is an actual event.

Bill Nye Choked on Radiometric Dating Question

Comedian, actor and former mechanical engineer William Sanford Nye (b. 1955) is best known for the show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98).  Nye gave a very poor response to the question regarding radiometric dating in the recent debate with Ken Ham (see the 2 hour and 7 minute mark).

First, he side-stepped the issue and brought up old stars.  That’s right, he was dancing with the stars!  Russell Humphreys (Ph.D. Physics, formerly with Sandia National Labs) wrote Starlight and Time in 1994 and gave a plausible answer to this question based on the General Theory of Relativity and gravitational time dilation.  A reasonable man or woman can see that the light travel problem applies to both the Big Bang and Creation models (as Ken pointed out regarding the horizon problem).

Nye defended an old earth based on depositional rates.  In 1883, Alexander Winchell, former State Geologist of Michigan, estimated the age of the earth at 3M years. [1]  That’s a far cry from 4.5 billion years.  That was back when gradualistic uniformitarianism was in vogue.  But now catastrophism has a wide following even within mainstream Geology.  So, if most deposits were formed rapidly, such as turbidites, the depositional rates favor Young Earth Science (YES).

Nye said Charles Lyell (d. 1875) came up with the phrase “deep time.”  Actually, it was John McPhee who wrote Basin and Range in 1980.  McPhee said, “The human mind may not have evolved enough to be able to comprehend deep time” (p. 133). 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie (d. 1934) came up with the term “radioactivity.”  Nye made the very common mistake in stating that radioactivity contradicted Kelvin’s age for the Earth (his final estimate was 24M).  In 1895, before the discovery of radioactivity, John Perry showed that convection in the Earth's interior modified Kelvin’s age of the Earth.

Some claim that YES is pseudoscience.  Bill Nye the Science Guy had an episode on that topic.  Nye said there must be aliens because there are so many stars.  Yet no one has seen aliens and there are no cities on Mars.  Extraordinary claims (aliens) require extraordinary evidence.  Nye was skeptical of the Loch Ness Monster.  According to the Smithsonian’s online encyclopedia, “Even though most scientists believe the likelihood of a monster is small, they keep an open mind …”  Perhaps Nye should be open minded towards YES.  An article in National Geographic was very fair towards Nessie and included reports from very reliable witnesses. [2]

A number of times in the debate ice core dating was brought up.  We have a post on ice cores.

Nye should read Kicking the Sacred Cow by former aeronautical engineer and award winning SciFi author James Hogan.  Hogan is very sympathetic to YES.  Ken Ham sent Nye a book in The New Answers Book series – will Nye have an open mind and read it and seriously consider the evidence?

As for the question posed to Nye in the debate, Ephraim Fischbach (Purdue University) gave a talk at the Institute for Theoretical, Atomic and Molecular and Optical Physics (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) providing firm data that indicates that the sun affects radioactive decay rates.  John Woodmorappe (M.A. Geology) has written an excellent book refuting radiometric dating and millions of years.  Jay Wile (Ph.D. Nuclear Chemistry, Univ. of Rochester), at one time a skeptic regarding accelerated radioactive decay, has some great info on varying decay rates.

Soft tissue in dinos, as discovered by Mary Schweitzer and others, says that dinos are young and the dating methods are wrong.  As Tim Stafford (The Adam Quest) asks, “How could something as delicate as blood cells survive sixty million [sic] years?” [3]

Pray for Bill.  The Apostle Paul persecuted the church.  Bill is persecuting YES.  Paul was gloriously converted (Acts 9, 22, 26).  The same thing can happen to Bill!  Will Bill Nye the Science Guy be blinded by the light (Acts 22:11)?

Nye is the head of the Planetary Society.  Feel free to send him a letter of encouragement or some creation books (such as the New Answers Books):

Attn. Bill Nye

The Planetary Society

85 South Grand Ave

Pasadena  CA  91105

Notes:

1) "Celebrating the age of the Earth" by Simon Knell and Cherry Lewis, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2001, vol. 190, p. 1-14, p. 7.

2) “Loch Ness: the lake and the legend” by William Ellis, National Geographic, Vol. 151, No. 6, June 1977, p. 759.

3) The Adam Quest by Tim Stafford (Nelson Books, Nashville, TN, 2013), p. 105.

The ABC’s of Genesis 1 to 11

Adam was a real historical figure.

Babel confused everybody.
Creator and Sustainer, God is.
Deluge – the Global Flood ruined Earth.
Eve (aka Eva) is the Mother of All (Gen. 3:20).
Fall – the Curse was the consequence.
Genesis 1-11 è foundational to Biblical doctrine.
Historical Narrative – Gen. 1:1 to 2:3 is.
Ice Age – ONE, not many.
Jesus endorsed Genesis 1-11.
Kinds are fixed (not species).

Lamb – sacrifice is required (Gen. 3:21, Ex. 12). [1]
Man is unique (Gen. 1:26, 2 Peter 2:12, 16).
Noah, Ark, Global Flood (Gen. 6-9).
Offerings and worship (Heb. 11:4, Gen. 8:20).
Pain since the Fall (Gen. 3:16-19).

Qumran – Dead Sea Scrolls – Genesis
Redemption promised (Gen. 3:15).
Satan is alive & well on planet Earth (Gen. 3).
Theology Matters (GIII is foundational).

Ussher, Y6K, YES, Annals of the World.
Virgin Birth (Gen. 3:15).

Week, origin of (Creation Week, Seven).
X-cellent, Adam was smart‼
YES = Young Earth Science (Gen. 5&11).
ZZZ è Adams Lost Dream.

In The Great Evangelical Disaster, Francis Schaeffer said,

The issue is whether the Bible gives propositional truth … where it touches history and the cosmos and this all the way back to pre-Abrahamic history, all the way back to the first eleven chapters of Genesis … [2]

“Every single biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the Book of Genesis” – Ken Ham. [3]

Writing in “The Funeral of a Great Myth” C.S. Lewis wrote,

… everything is moving “upwards and onwards.”  Reason has “evolved” out of instinct … civilization out of savagery … [many Darwinists claim] reason, virtue, art and civilization as we now know them are only crude or embryonic beginnings of far better things – perhaps Deity itself – in the remote future. [4]

 

Notes:

1)  A is for Adam by Ken & Mally Ham (Master Books, 1995), p. 78.
2)  The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer, Vol. 4 (Crossway, 1996), p. 332, emphasis added.
3)  The Lie by Ken Ham (Master Books, 25^th Anniv. ed., 2012), p. 82, emphasis in original. 
4)  Christian Reflections by C.S. Lewis (Eerdmans, 1967), p. 86.

Already Compromised – Review

Ken Ham and Greg Hall, President of Warner University, present the survey results of Britt Beemer (America’s Research Group) in this highly recommended work. They asked questions of school Presidents, Deans, Science Heads and Theology Heads at Christian colleges and universities regarding biblical authority. A total of 312 people were interviewed (2.5% margin of error).

There are six Christian schools where the presidents accept AiG’s statement of faith:

Bob Jones University
Jackson Hole Bible College
Tennessee Temple University
Northland International University
Appalachian Bible College
Warner University

Out of Ham and Hall’s survey of presidents, VP’s and department chairs, 59.6% of these Christian educational leaders accept Creation In Six Days (CISD), that is 24 hour days. Incredibly, 10.9% of these institutions teach that evolution is true. The term “evolution” itself is confusing, but most commonly means Atom-to-Adam transformation or Universal Common Ancestry (UCA). Only 42.3% of these leaders adopt Young Earth Science (YES). [1] Just 74% of these leaders believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. [2]

Considers these answers from the leaders of the Religion (or Theology) Dept. and the Science Dept. on whether they are Old-Earth or Young-Earth [3]:

57% of the Science Dept. chairs support YES - could it be that there is evidence that supports recent creation?
There is a much needed emphasis on a Christian Worldview in the book. [4] Because Christians have a deficient worldview (WV) they hold to a weak view of Ge 1-11 (G111). Francis Schaeffer (d. 1984) helped popularize the importance of worldview. Doug Groothuis, Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary, said this about Schaeffer and worldviews:

Schaeffer taught that worldviews need to be compared on the basis of objective criteria. … [a good worldview] must be internally consistent. … a worldview needs to fit the facts of reality; it must be "true to what is," as Schaeffer put it. A worldview needs to match the external facts of history and science.

I spoke with Ken Ham a number of years ago about my research on Schaeffer that his writings, overall, fall into the creationist camp. Schaeffer held to a non-tranquil Universal Flood, the possibility of man-dino coexistence and that nuclear decay rates may not be constant. [5]

According to John Stonestreet,

… one who may have influenced Protestant Evangelicalism more than any other towards worldview thinking is Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s most significant contribution was bringing the concept of Christian worldview out of the academy to popular Christian thought.

Already Compromised provides a welcome emphasis on knowing Jesus Christ personally. Ham and Hall also give a clear presentation of the gospel of grace. They include a helpful chapter of survival tips for college students. Ham and Hall focus on unity based on truth.

There is an excellent appendix refuting the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP) by Terry Mortenson and Bodie Hodge. This critical theory was refuted in The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (the successor of Moody) which were first distributed from 1910 to 1916. George Frederick Wright wrote the article “The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.” Other articles also relate to the JEDP issue.

Why have so many Christian schools gone astray? They have been unduly influenced by the likes of Mark Noll, who wrote in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1995):

Creation science has damaged Evangelicalism by making it much more difficult to think clearly about human origins, the age of the earth, and mechanisms of geological or biological change. But it has done more profound damage by undermining the ability to look at the world God has made and to understand what we see when we do look. [6]

Christian schools have compromised, but what is the solution? Students and educational leaders should read the following to help restore Evangelical foundations:
Sacred Cows In Science challenges mainstream science with such worldview topics as Darwin, eugenics, animal rights, abortion, climate change, non-material nature of the mind, gay activism, the Global Flood and other hot topics. There are 17 authors, several with Ph.D.’s. Norbert Smith (Ph.D. Zoology) is the editor and has been a creationist leader for many decades. The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer covers much from theology and philosophy to the arts.

The Fundamentals shows the power of old arguments – the new challenges have not yet refuted these. Contemporary scholars reject conservative theology because of bias and false presuppositions. The Fundamentals was edited by R. A. Torrey who actually “met” H. M. Morris, the father of modern creationism, in 1919! R. A. Torrey held the infant Morris, just a few months old, in his arms and prayed for him and his future ministry. [7] Fundamentalist is not a bad word – read The Fundamentals online.

Joel Heck has written In the Beginning, God: Creation from God's Perspective which is a superb defense of traditional creationism from Scripture and science. It is short and economically priced – ideal for mass distribution (hint: college presidents!!).

A future project for this team might include a national (US, CAN, UK) survey like the following:
The results could be displayed on billboards in various parts of the country (e.g. 84% of Alaskans support Young Earth Science). Amazingly, 29% of Russians, formerly an atheist state, hold that dinos and Man lived together. A survey of 1,600 Russians was conducted in January of this year (3.4% margin of error). The response in Gallup polls for those who agree with the statement “God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so” has changed little since 1982.

Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods [Darwin, Big Science, Old Earth Fallacies] which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Josh. 24:14, 15)

Notes:
1) Already Compromised by Ken Ham and Greg Hall (Master Books, Green Forest, AR, 2011), p. 22-24.
2) Ibid., p. 30.
3) Ibid., p. 55.
4) Ibid., pp. 204-212.
5) Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer by Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, IL, 1982), Vol. 2, pp. 94, 95, 132, 134.
6) quoted in Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills (Penguin, New York, 2007), p. 550.
7) A History of Modern Creationism by Henry Morris (Master Books, San Diego, CA, 1984), p. 58.

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On a lighter note, maybe some visionary educational leaders will someday start International Creationist University (I-C-U). ;-) G111 = believe Genesis 1-11 (not just what comes after)