New Britain herald., 1925-07-22
DARROW, REPLYING TOBRYAN,
 GIVES HIS VIEWS ON BIBLE
Doubts It Was Inspired By God and Claims Proof of Immortality of Soul is Lacking - Thinks Christ Was But Great Jew Who Delivered People From Bondage-Thinks Every Man Has Right to Own Religious Views.

are informed in the first part of the | Bible, however. that God is a spirit. ! If Mir. Bryan will describe what he | means by God l probably could tell | his God, Mir. Bryan said, in effect, | that God is like a man and Is fash | toned in the image of man. l do not believe in this kind of q God. As to the origin of the universe and who or what is back of it, l do not pretend to know.
 Mir. Bryan--Do you believe that the Bible is the revealed will of God, inspired and trustworthy?
 Not Inspired
 Mir. Darrow-I think that there is much that is of value in the Bible. I do not believe 1t was written or inspired by God. I believe it should be taken like every other kind of book and that the portions that are sublime are like such portions of any great bock-as much inspired as, say. "in His image"
 MT. Bryan-Do you believe In the supernatural Christ, foretold In the old testament and revealed in the rev testamentH
 Mir. Darrow-I do not believe that any supernatural Christ was foretold in the old testament or revealed i'll the new testament l believe that the Christ prophesied in the old te estament was a great Jew who should deliver his people from their physical bondage and nothing else.
 Mir. Bryan-Do you believe in the miracles recorded in the old and new testaments? If you believe In some but not all of them, please name a few of those which you ac cept and those you reject, with the reasons for the same. Do you be- lieye that Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the | Virgin Mary. as recorded in Matthew and Luke? Do you believe that Christ rose from the dead, as de- scrbed in the four gospels?
 Doubts Miracles
 Mir. Darrow-I do not believe in miracles. l believe the universe acts and has always acted in accordance with an immutable law and that whatever may be hck of the universe has never violated these laws,
 Mir. Bryan--Do you believe in the immortality of the soul?
 Mir. Darrow-I have been search ing for proof of this all my life with the same desire to find it that is incident to every living thing, and I have never found any evidence or the subject.
 Mir. Bryan-If you believe in evo lution, at what point in mans de scent from the brute is he endowed with hope and promise of life be yond the grave?
 Has No Knowledge
 MT Darrow--1 have no knowledg' on the question of when man frs believed in life beyond the grave
 I am not at all sure whether man , ether animals have not the sam
 hope of future life that man ha: The origin of this belief may hay
 arisen in vivid dreams concernin 5 the return of the dead, or, for a , I know, from actual evidence of th 9 return of the dead.
 "I have never tried to impose m . views on religion on any human be l ing" said Mir. Darrow, as he fir I ishcd his answers. 'I have rigf , to my own views. and I try as har
 to protect the right of every otht
 man to his views as do to protet
 my own"
 - Flood of Statements } The conclusion O. the Scopes trii = here brought a rain of statement 3 and counterstatements.
 f The first came from William Jer 1 nings Bryan and brought immediat
 responses from Clarence Darrow an Dudley Field Malone. Presentir n conflicting religious opinions, tf I statements set forth these views bot 1 as related to the evolution and r | hgtous phases of the Scopes trial ar | from their own personal standpoint 1 MT. Bryant asserted the case ha | uncovered an "insidious attack upC the authority of the Bible" | Mir. Darrow, replying, declared had not come into the Scopes ca \ until after the entrance of N a Bryan. and added that he was 'i 1 clined to think that intelligent r | ngionists would like to get rid 1 Mir. Bryan"
 Bryan Sarcastic 1 q shall prepare an answer to N ! Darrow's charge that am an ign
 rant higot." Mir Bryan said. T a \ (continued on Page 1D :.