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What effect did the Scopes trial have?

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Thanks to the endorsement of the federal government, increased interest in public education, and legal precedents limiting religious influences in public schools (i.e., the same forces that helped overturn Tennessee's Butler Law in 1967; see Grabiner and Miller 1974), the BSCS books became remarkably popular:

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