what was taught in the hallowed halls at Brandon that they helped to support. The notorious Scopes “monkey” trial, which had pitted the theory of Darwinism against religious fundamentalism in the United States, had played itself out only a couple of years before Tommy enrolled at Brandon, and many Baptists were on the fundamentalist side. But at the college, liberal ideas were given full rein (ironically, Brandon College was noted for its geology program, which taught a theory of an earth millions of years old that was diametrically opposed to the biblical view), and a charge of heresy had been levied against several Brandon professors. Tommy sarcastically described the position of the fundamentalists this way: “I want complete freedom of thought unless your point of view is different from mine, in which case you’ll believe what I believe.”
