The trial was a simple matter of deciding whether Scopes taught "any theory that denied the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible,"# but it ultimately served as the battleground between the Fundamentalists" literal interpretation of the Bible as the arbiter of the natural and supernatural and the Modernists" interpretation of the Bible as a guide for only faith and morality.# If the defense could break down the Fundamentalists" most contradictory beliefs towards evolution, man would come one step closer to breaking free of the Victorian era and emerging as a Modernist so...

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