re: point-scoring? Why not?
Or maybe I'm just supposed to sit here and fold my hands while those who didn't vote for the Most Brilliant Man On Earth (says so, right there on the label) are painted as knuckle-dragging fundamentalist troglodyte idiots. Even by some people here, although usually more subtly than the pundits elsewhere.
"Scopes Trial" is one of those buzz phrases that is supposed to immediately invoke in the reader the archetype of the forces of intellectual enlightenment in glorious battle against the darkness and the fundamentalist idiots.
Figured it wouldn't hurt to go into exactly how "enlightened" the ideas in question were. Bet you didn't know any of that, did you? I didn't.