Few events in all of history have been as maligned and misunderstood as the 1925 Scopes Trial, often called the most famous court trial in American history. The common view of the trial is that it was about religious belief pitted against scientific fact. John Scopes, as a teacher educated in biology, taught evolution [actually his major in geology with a minor in law]. His nemesis was William Jennings Bryan, whom evolutionists portrayed as an ignorant fundamentalist accepting every word of the Bible as literal truth. Bryan purportedly aimed to outlaw the teaching of science in public schools and advocated...