What did the Scopes Trial represent?

It represented the high water mark for creationism. People forget that Scopes was convicted of breaking the Tennessee law against teaching evolutionary theory. For tears after that the texts kept evolution of of Biology. Not until the 60's was evolution brought back into biology texts and in 1987 the Supreme Court struck down all such laws as Unconstitutional.

The Scopes trial represented the length ideologues would go to to suppress the truth about the world.