The FSM, all hail His Noodly Appendage, would not stoop so low as to use "evolution".
Steve Towsley
Fri, 11/25/2005 - 7:38am
"Inherit the Wind" redux...
Leo Morris
Fri, 11/25/2005 - 8:19am
I just saw "Inherit" recently for the first time in a long time. I'd forgotten how powerful the ending is, when the cynical reporter learns to his disgust that the Spencer Tracy character, the great agnostic, might actually have some faith himself. Tracy said, of the Frederick March character on the other side of the debate, that his only problem was in looking forGod too far away and too outside (or something to that effect). He then tells the reporter that HE's the pathetic one because he doesn't believe in anything and gets pleasure only from pitting people who take sides against each other. (Ouch)
Larry Morris
Fri, 11/25/2005 - 9:20am
"So, maybe the universe had an intelligent designer, who used evolution as a tool. There now, was that so hard?", ... silly boy, that's exactly what they believe.
Robert Enders
Sat, 11/26/2005 - 2:00pm
Wasn't the reporter character based on Clarence Darrow, even though Darrow was Scopes's lawyer?
Leo Morris
Sun, 11/27/2005 - 4:45pm
According to this site (http://www.filmsite.org/inhe.html ), the Tracy and March characters were pretty straigtforward characterizations of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. The reporter character (played by Gene Kelly) was supposed to be H.L. Mencken
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The FSM, all hail His Noodly Appendage, would not stoop so low as to use "evolution".
"Inherit the Wind" redux...
I just saw "Inherit" recently for the first time in a long time. I'd forgotten how powerful the ending is, when the cynical reporter learns to his disgust that the Spencer Tracy character, the great agnostic, might actually have some faith himself. Tracy said, of the Frederick March character on the other side of the debate, that his only problem was in looking forGod too far away and too outside (or something to that effect). He then tells the reporter that HE's the pathetic one because he doesn't believe in anything and gets pleasure only from pitting people who take sides against each other. (Ouch)
"So, maybe the universe had an intelligent designer, who used evolution as a tool. There now, was that so hard?", ... silly boy, that's exactly what they believe.
Wasn't the reporter character based on Clarence Darrow, even though Darrow was Scopes's lawyer?
According to this site (http://www.filmsite.org/inhe.html ), the Tracy and March characters were pretty straigtforward characterizations of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. The reporter character (played by Gene Kelly) was supposed to be H.L. Mencken