I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.

[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

Michael Shermer

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