A Children's conversation

In the beginning of the play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee, a pair of children, Melinda and Howard have their own conversation about the trial that is to take place in their town. Howard insists that Melinda and her entire family were once worms and blobs of jelly, taking the evolution’s side of the fight, while Melinda refuses to believe his words, coming from a religious family. Neither of the pair really understands what they are speaking of as they defend their beliefs, the ideas simply engrained into their heads by their parents. This is a statement of the entire town, whose people have almost blindly chosen sides, following what they were taught, not necessarily the facts of each side. Ignorant people have taken up a fight they do not understand, making the entire idea of the trial almost pointless.