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Scopes Trial and Intelligent Design Court Decision [11min]

After Tuesday's decision on intelligent design in Pennsylvania, author Edward Larson revisits the Scopes monkey trial. Guest: Edward Larson, author of Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (won Pulitzer Prize in history in 1988); professor of history and law at the University of Georgia.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"