Butler Act
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title:
Butler Act
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The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind's origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account. The law was introduced by Tennessee House of Representatives member John Washington Butler, from whom the law got its name. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922, having been sig
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1925 Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in schools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Act
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2023-08-14T08:49:56Z
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