The State of Things

I saw a movie the other day that I hadn't seen in many years. It was called, "Inherit the Wind", starring Spencer Tracy and it's rated 4 or 5 stars, top drawer. Best actor and best picture that year.

The movie is about the Scopes "monkey" trial where science was on trial, under attack by religion.

If you think about it, this is an ongoing controversy around here,


Science vs. Religion
How many arguments continue to take place over these two concepts, we can all name any number of them. Isn't it all about tolerance? Isn't that the core issue here? It's not so much that science isn't tolerant of religion but more that religion isn't tolerant of science.

Mr. Darwin was a courageous man to state what he so firmly believed, his theory lives on but the uproar has never died down.

Evolution is not only not recognized (let alone tolerated) by most if not all religions, it is resisted as valid subject matter in schools. Since when have schools become something less than an environment for learning. Who decides what children should or should not learn? This is science folks. Banning this kind of science, this kind of learning always takes me back to this picture, 70 years ago, that is burned indelibly into all our memories.

Heaven help us if we ever backslide to this kind of illiterate, fear-driven, unenlightened Hell again.