BRADY

I have faith in the Bible!

DRUMMOND

You don’t have much faith in the solar system.

BRADY

(Doggedly)

The sun stopped.

DRUMMOND

Good. (Level and direct) Now if what you say factually happened—if Joshua halted the sun in the sky—that means the earth stopped spinning on its axis; continents toppled over each other, mountains flew out into space. And the earth, arrested in its orbit, shriveled to a cinder and crashed into the sun. (Turning) How come they missed this tidbit of news.

BRADY

They missed it because it didn’t happen.

DRUMMOND

It must’ve happened! According to natural law. Or don’t you believe in natural law, Colonel? Would you like to ban Copernicus from the classroom, along with Charles Darwin? Pass a law to wipe out all the scientific development since Joshua. Revelations—period!

BRADY

(Calmly, as if instructing a child)

Natural law was born in the mind of the Heavenly Father. He can change it, cancel it, use it as He pleases. It constantly amazes me that you apostles of science, for all your supposed wisdom, fail to grasp this simple fact.

(DRUMMOND flips a few pages in the Bible.)

DRUMMOND

Listen to this: Genesis 4:16. “And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden. And Cain knew his wife!” Where the hell did she come from?

BRADY

Who?

DRUMMOND

Mrs. Cain. Cain’s wife. If, “In the beginning” there were only Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel, where’d this extra woman spring from? Ever figure that out?

BRADY

(Cool)

No, sir. I will leave the agnostics to hunt for her.

(Laughter.)

DRUMMOND

Never bothered you?

BRADY

Never bothered me.

DRUMMOND

Never tried to find out?

BRADY

No.

DRUMMOND

Figure somebody pulled off another creation, over in the next county?

BRADY

The Bible satisfies me, it is enough.

DRUMMOND

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

(DRUMMOND is still probing for a weakness in Goliath’s armor. He thumbs a few pages further in the Bible.)

DRUMMOND

This book now goes into a lot of “begats.” (He reads) “And Aphraxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber” and so on and so on. These pretty important folks?

BRADY

They are the generations of the holy men and women of the Bible.

DRUMMOND

How did they go about all this “begatting”?

BRADY

What do you mean?

DRUMMOND

I mean, did people “begat” in those days about the same way they get themselves “begat” today?

BRADY

The process is about the same. I don’t think your scientists have improved it any.

(Laughter.)

DRUMMOND

In other words, these folks were conceived and brought forth through the normal biological function known as sex. (There is hush-hush reaction through the court. HOWARD’S mother clamps her hands over the boy’s ears, but he wriggles free) What do you think of sex, Colonel Brady?

BRADY

In what spirit is this question asked?

DRUMMOND

I’m not asking what you think of sex as a father, or as a husband. Or a Presidential candidate. You’re up here as an expert on the Bible. What’s the Biblical evaluation of sex?