Scary. 1925 is still happening.

OP has an underlying point which is right, but needs to not distract from his main point with non-sequiturs like slavery and KKK. Stick to what is relevent: the arguments presented by both sides in the movie are STILL being argued today. The religious in our country are willing to slow down and even counter the intellectual growth of our schools for the sole reason of protecting their bible.

The creationists main argument is not based in science, but in religion. It is for that reason that it looks silly when they try to outdo science with science. They are trying to beat science at their own game. The ongoing developments of science are seen as a threat to those who choose to interpret the bible literally. Afterall, how can you reconcile science, which says the earth is 4.6 billion years old, with the bible, which says the earth is 6000 years old? You can't, so they dont'. So instead they attempt to subvert evolution, by posing creation science as an equal competitor to evolution. The purpose of this is not to actually justify creationism as a legitimate science -- that's impossible. The purpose is just to put a question mark over evolution, that way they can convince their children that the bible is still potentially right.


Looks like this country still has a lot of growing up to do...




"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith...and I'm a locksmith."

@skysaxon - You might try knowing a little something about history and events, instead of relying on Hollywood to educate you. The movie misrepresented the townspeople, Tennessee, and the south as bigoted mobs, and so called evil right-wing religious nuts when in reality the people treated Darrow kindly and with respect as Darrow himself testified to during the trial. Here is the quote from the 'real' trial transcript..... not the biased Hollywood left-wing version.

"I don't know as I was ever in a community in my life where my religious ideas differed as widely from the great mass as I have found them since I have been in Tennessee. Yet I came here a perfect stranger and I can say what I have said before that I have not found upon anybody's part-any citizen here in this town or outside, the slightest discourtesy. I have been treated better, kindlier and more hospitably than I fancied would have been the case in the north, and that is due largely to the ideas that southern people have and they are, perhaps, more hospitable than we are up north..."

Oh, I think a LOT has changed! God was essentially kicked out of public schools just about 3 years after this film was released. Since then, instead of it being illegal to teach Darwin's Theory of Evolution in public schools, it's illegal to teach the BIBLE in public schools!

And to what effect did this 180-degree change have on the USA? From that very controversial decision in 1963 of so-called "separation of church and state", the government's own statistics reflect how in terms of SAT scores, juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancies, just to name a few, have also been turned completely upside-down!

Staring in the late 1940's, the U.S. Supreme Court started mis-interpreting the "separation of church and state" as "separation of church FROM state". To my understanding, this whole issue was addressed by our Founding Fathers NOT to keep religion of of public life, but to prohibit the government from establishing its own "state-run" church - like the way it was in England at the time when the Pilgrims started coming over here.

No, the Pilgrims weren't trying to escape FROM religion - they were wanting to escape having no freedom OF religion, to worship God as they wished to do, not necessarily the way the Crown said they HAD to do.

"Think slow, act fast." --Buster Keaton

Yes, it *is* truly scary. America is still oppressing teachers from teaching students multiple points of view to encourage them to challenge their own preconceived notions and think on their own. Only, now, the pendulum has swung all the way over to the other side, and now, anyone who dares teach that there is scientific validity to the theory of intelligent design, and that there are multiple theories for the origin of man can lose their job over it. And their pension. It’s happened multiple times at colleges and universities.

Can't face the truth, can you. www.creation.com would clean your clock regarding the lying distortions of your religious bigotry if you dared to face it, an unlikely prospect in view of the sad cowardice of those who embrace evil, bigoted caricature propaganda lies like Inherit the Wind vs the truth. Also see the Scopes trial fraud ably exposed at
http://www.bradburyac.mistral.co.uk/tennesse.html

The OP is right. If left unchecked, the religious fundamentalist who, basically, control the Tea Party would have false science (creationism) taught in our schools and have those who disagree thrown in jail. They are truly scary. Thankfully, the majority of Americans recognize them as the ignorant stains on humanity they are and fight the good fight to keep them from taking over.

We'll see who's the filthiest person alive! We'll just see!

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