TODAY IN HISTORY: The "Monkey Trial"

It was the "trial of the century." On July 10, 1925, a courtroom in Tennessee was center stage in a contest pitting two courtroom titans against each other, arguing science versus religion on a grand scale, with the full cooperation of an enthusiastic pack of journalists more interested in a spectacle. In real fact, the trial began as a sort of small-town  publicity stunt. But the argument at its center, between the Bible and Charles Darwin, still isn't settled in many minds.

The drama began when