High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law forbidding public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man s origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922 . The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account. However, the law did not prohibit the teaching of evolutionary theory for other species of plants or animals