left: Gene Kelly right: Spencer Tracy next to Tracy: Dick York (who played the original Darrin on Bewitched!)
The movie is about the Scopes trial -- which really happened, believe it or not. (Some of today's youth might possibly respond like Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos when someone tells him the Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened -- "That was real?! I saw the movie, I thought it was bullshit.")
They had a trial of a teacher who taught evolution in the public school. It was in 1925, in Tennessee.
I saw the movie on TV when I was in 6th or 7th grade -- I asked my dad why they argue over this -- he said it was silly, they didn't need to argue, that God could create people any way He wanted to -- through evolution, or whatever.
I thought he must know, since he was a minister.
There are people who just love to argue about this subject -- it's crazy. On the Internet this week, after the kidnapped child in New York state was found (unharmed) people were writing in Comments saying "Thank God" and "God heard our prayers" etc.
And then a few other Comments would appear: "What, the same God who allowed her to get kidnapped in the first place?"
LOL.
The thing is, when these arguments get going on the Internet, at first the pro-religion people seem the most dogmatic, and then as it goes on, the anti-religion people, who started out sounding factual, get wound up and become just as dogmatic as the extremists who are screaming that they are "Christians"!!!!! -- as if it's a magic word -- at people who never asked them....
Even I had to type a comment to the Washington Post, answering another reader comment that said he didn't require religion because he relies on science for his information -- I told him, "God and science are not in competition. We don't have to pick one or the other. Both can exist."
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On You Tube, type in
put your hands up and pray
uploader / channel: The chosen one
and Play!
It's a good song.
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