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.
The Egyptians believed their pharaoh to be the mediator between the gods and the world of men. As a divine ruler, the pharaoh was the preserver of the god-given order, called maat.
