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The Scopes Retrial Alleged, a new movie on the 1925 Scopes trial, reveals how the major media delivered a distorted view of the trial in an attempt to attack biblical Christianity. At last: a Hollywood film on the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” that does not attack Christianity. Alleged, to be released in theaters soon, provides a counter to the anti-creationist play Inherit the Wind (1955) and its subsequent namesake films (1960 and after).* Alleged stars a familiar face in Hollywood and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning actor Brian Dennehy. He plays evolutionary attorney Clarence Darrow. Interestingly, Dennehy played William Jennings...

Books attacking religion, particularly Christianity, have earned quite a bit of money recently for publishers and their authors. Pundits are now having a field day attacking Mike Huckabee’s stance on evolution. Democratic strategist Paul Begala reportedly remarked on CNN on Super Tuesday, “Nobody is more conservative than Huckabee. He doesn’t believe in evolution or gravity or photosynthesis.”             Those who love to lob such oversimplified charges imply that those who do not accept the doctrinaire theories of evolution as set forth by one explorer named Charles Darwin, a century-and-a-half ago, are relics of the Dark Ages.  The latest Smart Set,...

I saw something pretty shocking last night, and I don't really shock easily any more. This was David Menton's "Inherently Wind" which a number of people were watching over at the DC area McLean Bible Church last night. I must have seen a few bits and pieces of Inherit the Wind on televion here and there but always found it boring and changed the channels. I had no real idea that this thing was a complete and total propaganda piece, or that large numbers of school kids were seeing this thing in social studies and English classes. This play...

PARIS, FRANCE--Notre Dame sits proudly in the middle of the River Seine, which winds its way through this ancient city. It is an impressive Cathedral, with its towering gothic arches and vaults, its captivating chapels, and its rich history. Although the French still celebrate July 14, when a rowdy mob of radicals freed some non-political prisoners from the Bastille, they are still sober about the excesses of the French Revolution. For one, they seem to realize that it was silly for those Revolutionaries to expel the Church from France and turn Notre Dame into the "Temple of Reason." Still, they...

An Academy Award-nominated film can remain in a school district's library collection. Earlier this year, a biology teacher showed "Inherit the Wind" at Shawnee Mission East. The film portrays the trial of a high school teacher and the clash of creationism versus the theory of evolution. A Shawnee Mission School District committee recommended the film remain in the school's library, but did not recommend the video be used as an accurate resource for science classes. The committee said the material is dated and may be potentially offensive. However, the committee also said teacher discretion should be the qualifier for which...