>Faith? This post reminds me that I saw again part of the Spencer Tracy film "Inherit the Wind" the other day, the one based on a real-life case in 1925, where two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher (a young "Darren" from "Bewitched") accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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>http://imdb.com/title/tt0053946/
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>Now I haven't seen this film for years but just listening to Tracy's arguments, and showing millions of years-old rocks, with fossils in them, and the religious bigot's blind, dogged and rigid adherence to "the Good Book", reminded me so much of some of the thread arguments we've had here (e.g. "George Bush"). I thought, Jeez! that was over 80 years ago and the logical truth and evidence still hasn't got through to some!
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>At one point, when Tracy shows him a rock, he smugly blurts out "I'm more concerned with the 'Rock of Ages' than the age of rocks!"

That's one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm sure you know it's based on the Scopes trial that featured Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan. Tracy is the Darrow character; Fredric March is the Bryan character. Gene Kelly plays a character based on H. L. Mencken and Harry Morgan is the judge.

Tamar