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Summary Of Bert Cates Inherit The Wind

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In “Inherit the Wind”, there is a school teacher, named Bert Cates, waiting to go to trial for a crime he committed. Cates decided to teach about evolution, a topic that was banned in school. Everyone but Cates thought it was wrong, so the question is, should he have taught evolution? I believe he made a bad choice to teach it. The most important reason is that it is illegal to teach it and he should have known that. Also everyone should have the right to believe what they want to believe in. The kids can’t be forced to believe that humans came from monkeys.
Cates made a wrong decision in teaching evolution. He knew it was illegal do so, but he still did it anyways. In the book he says, “You know why I did it. I had the book in my hand, Hunter's
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