The Rabbi at the Scopes Trial

Clergy people and other religious folks straining to put their faith's seal of approval on Darwin, BioLogos-style, may seem like a very contemporary sign of our own times. Actually there's nothing new about it at all.

I was looking over a collection of archival photos on the website of the interesting and effective new film Alleged, which seeks to do historical justice to the Scopes Trial in a way that the famously fictionalized Inherit the Wind does not. One photo caught my eye: Two m...