| | '''In the fabricated closing scenes''', ‘Bryan’ is portrayed as a defeated and broken man, insanely reciting Scripture in a sweat-laden frenzy of madness, before dramatically dying in the courtroom. He is looked upon with pity by the calm and reasonable evolutionists, and those gathered from the press. | | '''In the fabricated closing scenes''', ‘Bryan’ is portrayed as a defeated and broken man, insanely reciting Scripture in a sweat-laden frenzy of madness, before dramatically dying in the courtroom. He is looked upon with pity by the calm and reasonable evolutionists, and those gathered from the press. |
| − | '''The message in the film was clear''': To portray those who accept evolution as being progressive truth-seekers, unshackled by false old religious ideas, and full of common sense. But Christians were portrayed as dishonest and hypocritical, or as ignorant yokels who deny the truth of progress occuring all around them, preferring to remain attached to quaint old traditions.<ref>Demick, David, [http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5625/ Who’s inheriting the wind now?], ''Creation'' 29(2):34–36, March 2007.</ref>}} | + | '''The message in the film was clear''': To portray those who accept evolution as being progressive truth-seekers, unshackled by false old religious ideas, and full of common sense. But Christians were portrayed as dishonest and hypocritical, or as ignorant yokels who deny the truth of progress occurring all around them, preferring to remain attached to quaint old traditions.<ref>Demick, David, [http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5625/ Who’s inheriting the wind now?], ''Creation'' 29(2):34–36, March 2007.</ref>}} |