It's Wednesday, July the 23rd, 2025.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum, CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday at the age of 76.

He was especially famous or infamous for biting the head off a dead bat during a concert in Des Moines.

This is unsurprising.

The Associated Press calls him, quote,

the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of his band, tellingly titled Black Sabbath, and the drug and alcohol-ravaged ID of heavy metal.

His band's eponymously titled First Album was released in 1970 and sold nearly 5 million albums. Black Sabbath sold more than 75 million albums in total.

Osborne was known as the Prince of Darkness, a term employed in John Milton's Paradise Lost,

to refer to Satan as the embodiment of evil. To understand the cultural insight Osborne's career illustrates,

ask yourself whether his music celebrating themes of horror, doom, paranoia, drug abuse,

and the occult would have been popular or even possible 20 years earlier.

Now, let's turn to our second news item. Monday was the 100th anniversary

of the Scopes Monkey Trial conclusion. At issue was Tennessee's law prohibiting the teaching of

evolution in public schools. The high school teacher being prosecuted, John T. Scopes, was found guilty and fined $100,

although the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned his conviction on the technicality while upholding

the law against evolution as constitutional. In many ways, the cultural conflict revealed by the

trial has been exacerbated for many by the normalization

of evolutionary theory that it produced. From then until now, battles over abortion, sexual

liberation, and LGBTQ ideology have been won resoundingly by their proponents. Even the Supreme Court's decision

overturning Roe v. Wade did not lower the number of abortions in America. This is tragically

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