At issue in the scopes trial of 1925 was whether a public school teacher could

A - teach about Darwin's theory of evolution.

B - tell students that the Bibles contained errors.

C - teach a course on the Bible.

D - Speak out against Darwin's theory of evolution

The correct answer is A.

In the Scopes Trial that was celebrated in 1925, a high school teacher was acused of violating the Tennessee's Butler Act, which had declared illegal to teach human evolution theories in any school that enjoyed public funding.

This trial highlighted the existing polemic between modernists, that stated that evolution could be consistently explained together with religion, and Fundamentalists who argued that no human-developed knowledge could overrule the word of God as contained in the Bible.