According to Dudley Field Malone, what is really being debated in the Scopes trial?
The Scopes trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, is about whether society should be based on science or on religion (he believed children should be taught both, not one or the other). It shows society's curiosity and society's forming of new, developed ideas that go past just religion (like advancements in technology and science). Dudley Field Malone was his attorney at the Scopes Monkey Trial (1925).
John Thomas Scopes was on trial for teaching evolution in a Tennessee state-funded school, in violation of the Butler Act.