Scopes originally lost the trial too. It’s hard to see things as firmly settled in the US as well, “God says so” coming from another person’s lips is powerful to a great many people.
You're absolutely right--I had misremembered the outcome of the trial--but it set in motion the idea of separating religion from science education, which now seems obvious to most Americans.
And while the U.S. does have a wide contingent of (mostly uneducated) people as you describe, I could not imagine a serious research institution in the U.S. today recommending giving Biblical creation equal time with science in the public schools; even less, the mobbing of a scientist who objects to it by thousands of his colleagues crying for him to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences--with his provost and the society itself in agreement!
I can't imagine that either, but only because that particular religion is out if favor in academia. But I can easily imagine it, and in fact think it has happened, to those offending against other religions. It’s just that these belief systems are not usually described as “religions”.