[Tell It Right]

This below month old article on American Thinker stresses the point that the trial was more about human evolution. Basically, the Christians "fundamentalists" were pushing for everyone to be treated the same, while the secularists were pushing to keep blacks in their place, so to speak. The main argument against putting blacks in the back of the bus was coming from Christians, who were teaching that we're all made in the image of God.

Exceptions of course came from the fake church leaders who had infiltrated God's churches then just like now. But make no mistake: the main push for scientific racism came from the secularists.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/secular_mythology_the_scopes_monkey_trial.html

[Jamestown1630]

That seems like a simplistic and misleading dichotomy. Among those with interest in the subject, there were many Christians who were not fundamentalists, and many secularists who were not racist white supremacists.