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The Scopes Monkey Trial: How Old Is Music, Anyway?
The Scopes Monkey Trial notwithstanding (see below), music evolved in, and therefore is as old as, the human species. Most religions hypothesize (but promulgate as truth) divine creation, external, objectifiable forces of good and evil, an afterlife, and some sort of heaven and hell.
But sincere belief in religious doctrine does not make it true.
The evidence supporting Darwinian evolution directly contradicts such claims, earning the enduring hostility of strongly committed religious adherents who believe in the unchangeable doctrines and “received truths” of their faith, and do not tolerate free inquiry, evidence, or critical thinking.
In one notorious case in America in the 1920s, a high school science teacher stood trial for teaching evolution, in violation of Tennessee law. The court convicted him (Scopes Monkey Trial). Some U. S. states still occasionally pass anti-evolution statutes, though courts now tend to pay more attention to the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.