The Scopes Trial wasn’t really about evolution—or even about law. It was about who gets to tell the story. Clarence Darrow didn’t just defend his client; he set a trap that made the Bible, and those who believed it, look backward and broken. Bryan never collapsed, but the headlines made it seem like he did—and the damage in the court of public opinion was done. The ACLU lost the case but won the culture. And for the next hundred years, Christians have been fighting from behind.