Unlike in the movie, Scopes never spent any time in jail, nor did he have a girlfriend, shown in the movie as the daughter of a narrow-minded minister. What the movie portrays quite accurately is the brilliant way Darrow questioned Bryan on the stand, asking him questions from the Bible and getting him to admit that the days of creation might have been longer than 24 hours. Students say the script was written to show creationists as the bad guys and Darrow as a hero. No way are we close to getting a theory to the origin of life. Barbour sees both similarities and differences between the two ways of knowing or forming beliefs, but more similarities than people often think.
Science begins with observation of the data, religion with religious experiences and sacred stories.
Both use imagination to build models and draw analogies. Science has theories, religion has beliefs. What Barbour adds is that scientists' theories influence their observation of data. I'm a scientist. When you come up with conflicting data you don't throw away your theory.