内容摘要：Earlier this year, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bucharest in a show of support for Georgescu, who cemented his status as a persecuted anti-system candidate, railing against a corrupt political class.

Earlier this year, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bucharest in a show of support for Georgescu, who cemented his status as a persecuted anti-system candidate, railing against a corrupt political class.

“The Sphenacodontid Kind,” Dimetrodon, is displayed at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky., Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Madeleine Hordinski)“The Sphenacodontid Kind,” Dimetrodon, is displayed at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky., Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Madeleine Hordinski)

The issue has been repeatedly legislated and litigated since the Scopes trial. Tennessee repealed its anti-evolution law in 1967. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that a similar Arkansas law was an unconstitutional promotion of religion, and in 1987 it overturned a Louisiana law requiring that creationism be taught alongside evolution. A 2005 federal court similarly forbade a Pennsylvania school district from presenting “intelligent design,” a different approach to creationism that argues life is too complex to have evolved by chance.Some lawmakers have recently revived the issue. North Dakota’s Senate this year defeated a bill that would have allowed public school teaching on intelligent design. A newvaguely allows teachers to answer student questions about “scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.”

The Scopes trial set a template for today’s culture-war battles, with efforts to expand vouchers for attendees of private schools, including Christian ones teaching creationism, and to introducedisplays in public schools.

Such efforts alarm science educators like

, the television “Science Guy,” whose 2014 debate with Ham was billed as “Scopes II” and has generated millions of video views online.Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Mackenzie McDonald of the U.S. during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova returns the ball to Poland’s Iga Swiatek during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova returns the ball to Poland’s Iga Swiatek during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

United States’ Jessica Pegula, right, reaches for the hand of Romania’s Anca Todoni at the end of their first round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)United States’ Jessica Pegula, right, reaches for the hand of Romania’s Anca Todoni at the end of their first round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)