<P> It additionally outlined that an offending teacher would be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined between $100 and $500 for each offense . </P> <P> By the terms of the statute, it could be argued, it was not illegal to teach evolution in respect to non-human creatures, such as that apes descended from protozoa or to teach the mechanisms of variation and natural selection . The bill also did not touch on, or restrict the teaching of prevailing scientific theories of geology or the age of the Earth . It did not even require that the Genesis story be taught, but prohibited solely the teaching that man evolved, or any other theory denying that man was created by God as recorded in Genesis . However the author of the law, a Tennessee farmer named John Washington Butler, specifically intended that it would prohibit the teaching of evolution . He later was reported to have said, "No, I didn't know anything about evolution when I introduced it . I'd read in the papers that boys and girls were coming home from school and telling their fathers and mothers that the Bible was all nonsense ." After reading copies of William Jennings Bryan's lecture "Is the Bible True?" as well as Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, Butler decided the teaching of evolution was dangerous . </P> <P> The law was challenged by the ACLU in the famed Scopes Trial, in which John Scopes, a high school science teacher who agreed to be arrested on a charge of having taught evolution, and was nominally served a warrant on May 5, 1925 . Scopes was indicted on May 25 and ultimately convicted; on appeal the Tennessee Supreme Court found the law to be constitutional under the Tennessee State Constitution, because: </P> <P> We are not able to see how the prohibition of teaching the theory that man has descended from a lower order of animals gives preference to any religious establishment or mode of worship . So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory .--Scopes v. State 289 S.W. 363, 367 (Tenn. 1927) </P>

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