55 years and people still didn't get the point of this movie
It's not about who's right, God or Science.
Or religious x atheists, agnostics, scientists, evolutionists, darwinists.
It's not about what's right or wrong and that's so emphasized across the film it almost kills its capacity of bringing people to wonder, which is the most powerful and magnetic feature of this movie.
It's about having a position, using your free will to chose and not being smashed by fanatics.
Down with fanaticism, that's the point of this movie.
Let people be.
And the major and glaring, obvious symbol of such philosophy it's the final dialog between Drummond and Hornebeck.
He was religious, after all. And he even appreciated the burning faith of those who stuck to the Bible, but maybe not in the way and in the spirit of Brady. The same words and ideas said by him were appreciated by Drummond when said by Brady's wife.
It was the manner, the hammering of beliefs that was wrong. And that comes both ways, also from scientists.
And as a closing, even more obvious way to demonstrate the movie's message, Drummond piles the Bible over Darwin's book and he leaves with them both like it, combined...after all, he was always trying to conciliate science with the Holy Book since the beginning. In the end of the day, that was his choice, his stand, and there was no one there to keep him from it.