"Inherit The Wind" the loneliest feeling in the world...

My favorite scene from a stellar film.

"It's the loneliest feeling in the world
to find yourself standing up
when everyone else is sitting down.
To have everybody look at you and say,
"What's the matter with her?"
I know what it feels like.
Walking down an empty street,
listening to the sound of your own footsteps.
Shutters closed,
blinds drawn,
doors locked against you.
And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something,
or if you're just walking away.


...But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, "If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way you want me to think," and all the blinds'll go up and all the windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again. "

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[snoman99991]

Despite the fact that this piece of FICTION has strong ties to a real case, they are not one and the same. That said, the logic of the defense in this film is rather sound. The caricature of the majority of fundamentalists is also rather sound. It's not that we believe all christians are crazy nutjobs, it's that we believe that there is no place for religion in law. Religion deserves no favors, nor any restrictions from private life. It should be a separate entity.

[LordZontar]

Dick York was well cast as Bertram Cates in this movie. He was a young and sensitive actor and you see this in all of his pre-Bewitched roles. He always played

"little" characters but made them quietly large by his naturalistic behaviour in the part. You can particularly see this in his two appearances in The Twilight Zone.

[EvaHartwig]

Bravo, Kramer. Bravo, Tracy --

[shanedk]

@snoman99991 Inherit the Wind was never intended to be a historical play about the Scopes trial; Lawrence and Lee used elements from the Scopes trial to write a play that was really a slam against McCarthyism.

[cyberyanmar]

stan kramer was a very underrated director this movie is the greatest diamond that ever came out of hollywood

[GotTonkaed]

@dchris1990

Social Darwinism has literally nothing to do with what Darwin taught though. Darwin gave us the elegant explanation of natural selection. That has nothing to do with socio-economics, particularly in context.  Christians feared that the discovery of natural selection would lead many to believe that Eugenics was a good choice, as it would seem to follow naturally. However, humans are guided by ethics and understand as a species that it isn't our domain to control life like that.

[dchris1990]

@snoman99991 the movie ignored a point that in this period, many if not most atheists believed in some wierd form of Social Darwinism, which preached the anti-Jesus message of might to the strong, death to the rest. Im not excusing religious fundamentalism, but it's obvious that many Christians were scared of urban change, of nascent ubernationalism and fascism, and were, in some ways, kinder people than the atheists who supplanted them.

[DarwinsFriend]

@snoman99991 Indeed and pushing the rock of fear off your chest is truly liberating!

[snoman99991]

@DarwinsFriend

It's a pleasure to see reality for myself. The very welcoming community that is online atheism had a profound impact upon my arrival at nontheism. While I probably never spoke with you prior, thank you. We all have a hand in making this world a better place.

[F1NGER]

@Sickopath333 ...Punctuated equilibrium was suggested to explain why evolution appears to happen in fits and starts in the fossil record. Fairly recent discoveries in genetics are shining light on why that would happen, showing that simple random mutation doesn't play as big a role as is traditionally thought. But the fact of evolution by natural selection is still overwhelmingly evident and is not under dispute by science.

[F1NGER]

@Sickopath333 The testable prediction of natural selection (and sexual selection) is that organisms will, over successive generations, change according to environmental pressures. Some famous controlled experiments are Richard Lenski's long-term e-coli experiment, John Endler's guppie experiment, and the peppered moth study. There are also all the examples of animal and plant domestication as well as natural evolutionary events like the nylon bug, the stickleback, and ring species phenomenon...

[Sickopath333]

@F1NGER And what testable claims are made by natural selection that have been supported by evidence, may I ask? I was under the impression punctuated equilibrium was even tentatively suggested because there was a certain lacking amount of testable evidence and experiments on the matter of evolution via natural selection.