Editing Scopes trial (section)

==== Adam and Eve ====

An area of questioning involved the book of Genesis, including questions about whether [[Eve]] was actually created from Adam's rib, where [[Cain and Abel|Cain]] got his wife, and how many people lived in [[Ancient Egypt]]. Darrow used these examples to suggest that the stories of the Bible could not be scientific and should not be used in teaching science, telling Bryan, "You insult every man of science and learning in the world because he does not believe in your fool religion."{{sfn|Moran|2002|p=150}} Bryan's declaration in response was "The reason I am answering is not for the benefit of the superior court. It is to keep these gentlemen from saying I was afraid to meet them and let them question me, and I want the Christian world to know that any atheist, agnostic, unbeliever, can question me anytime as to my belief in God, and I will answer him."{{sfn|Moran|2002|p=157}}

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Stewart objected for the prosecution, demanding to know the legal purpose of Darrow's questioning. Bryan, gauging the effect the session was having, snapped that its purpose was "to cast ridicule on everybody who believes in the Bible". Darrow, with equal vehemence, retorted "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States."<ref>p. 299</ref>

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A few more questions followed in the charged open-air courtroom. Darrow asked where Cain got his wife; Bryan answered that he would "leave the agnostics to hunt for her".<ref><!-- what book? -->pp. 302–03</ref> When Darrow addressed the issue of the [[Eve#Temptation, fall, and expulsion from the garden|temptation]] of Eve by the [[Serpent (Bible)|serpent]], Bryan insisted that the Bible be quoted verbatim rather than allowing Darrow to paraphrase it in his own terms. However, after another angry exchange, Judge Raulston banged his gavel, adjourning the court.{{sfn|de Camp|1968|p=410}}