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Article: Battle over our beginnings found in courts, schools.

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If you've ever seen the movie ``Inherit the Wind,'' you may be scratching your head over the continued debate about evolution and creationism.

The 1960 movie starred Spencer Tracey as a defense lawyer who defended a man accused of teaching evolution. It also starred Fredric March as a blustery prosecutor.

The movie portrayed fundamentalists as narrow-minded, bigoted and out of touch with modern American society, and left little doubt as to who won the debate.

But the actual case that the movie was based upon _ and the real Clarence Darrow (the defense lawyer) and William Jennings Bryan (the prosecutor) _ solved nothing.

Which is not ...

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