it wasn’t until I was surfing Wikipedia this evening that I realized how timely our brief back-and-forth regarding evolution was. Today happens to be the 83rd anniversary of the sentencing Scopes Monkey Trial.

I find it disheartening that 83 years later some people insist on trying to push religion in public schools while vilifying the progress of science. How anyone could read the transcripts of that trial, in which Clarence Darrow literally crushes William Jennings Bryan with his own words, and still argue for the concept of creationism to be taught as fact just staggers me.

Edit: It’s probably not a coincidence that Slate ran this article earlier this afternoon, which raises an interesting point I had never considered.