Oh, that's what you meant. Of course, I've never pointed that out. :-)
I'm going to have find what Bryant actually said -- as opposed to Fredric March -- before expressing my opinion on his testimony.
People --including me -- can misinterpret scripture especially the early parts and, for the record, the Bible is not a science book.
Brian testified as an "expert," but not necessarily as a scientist. Maybe it was on the bible or something. He may not have actually been a trained theologian, but if no one objected, he would have been accepted by the court as an expert witness. I think the movie's dialogue was generally true to the trial transcript. Some liberties were obviously taken with it, but I understand that a lot of it actually happened that way.