NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch contributed "A Century after Scopes, Teaching about Evolution Faces New Legal Uncertainty" to the August 2025 issue of SciTech†, the newsletter of the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology, and the Christian Faith.
Recounting the twists and turns of the contentious legal history of evolution education in the United States, Branch ended by describing two recent Supreme Court cases, Kennedy v. Bremerton and Mahmoud v. Taylor, that threaten the teaching of evolution. "The consequences of these recent Supreme Court decisions on evolution education are not yet clear," he added. "But church/state jurisprudence, once more or less settled in its general principles, is now clearly in a state of volatility. At a Scopes trial centennial conference held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 19, 2025, John E. Jones III — the now-retired judge who presided over Kitzmiller v. Dover 20 years ago — offered a recommendation to the audience: 'Buckle in.'"
The 100th anniversary of the Scopes "monkey trial" is further commemorated in a handful of articles and reviews, as well as the president of PASTCF's column, published in the August 2025 issue of the newsletter (PDF).
