The Friends of Charles Darwin

In early December, a local Baptist minister, Curtis Brickley, put up handbills inviting residents of [Darby, Montana], population 754, to a meeting in the junior high school gym. The topic was the teaching of evolution in the Darby schools… There, the well-spoken minister delivered an elaborate PowerPoint presentation challenging Charles Darwin's theories… Within days, a group of parents, business people, teachers, students and other residents mobilized to defend Darwin against Mr. Brickley's challenge.