a reference to the 1925 trial of John T. Scopes (1900–1970), a biology teacher in Daytona, Tennessee, USA, who had broken a law by teaching the theory of evolution in his class, instead of the theory of creation. The theory of evolutionholds that man descended and evolved from the lower life forms to what he is today. The theory of creation states that God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, and all men and women are their direct descendants. The law in Tennessee at that time prohibited the teaching of anything that would contradict the accepted biblical interpretation of man's creation. The trial was one of the most famous and controversial in Americanhistory, due to both its subjectmatter and the celebrated lawyers for