Next Tuesday, July 21, is the 90th anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, the day the case was decided, and we’ve got something special in store for you to mark the occasion. Stephen Meyer had the leading hand in it. David Berlinski, Paul Nelson, Douglas Axe, Ann Gauger, Casey Luskin, and I also pitched on. What is it? Well, you’ll have to check back here on Tuesday to find out.

As you know, the Scopes Trial is the source for the (historically misleading) film Inherit the Wind, which still hovers like a baleful phantom over the evolution controversy. The Scopes anniversary is an excellent occasion to debunk the Darwinists’ fiction that time somehow stands still and has done so for nearly a century.

They present the subject of evolution versus intelligent design as if there were no real debate, as if nothing much had happened in science in the past 90 years to challenge Darwinian biology or to suggest an alternative, as if it were still Darrow battling Bryan over Scriptural literalism before a crowd of “yokels” outside the Dayton courthouse. For them, it remains the year 1925 and we’re still receiving acid dispatches from the Bible Belt via H.L. Mencken.

No. Notwithstanding the daily denials issuing from today’s defenders of 19th century materialist science, the debate about Darwin advances year by year. The past couple of years have been particularly important. It’s the scientific controversy that can no longer be denied. Next week we are going to document that in a very substantial fashion.

Image: Scopes Trial, by Smithsonian Institution [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons.