Evening star., 1925-07-28
Unspoken Speech by Bryan
Sees Bible in War to Death
Science Needs Religion as Moral Rudder
to Preuent Poisoning of Minds of
Young, He Asserts.

that denies the story of Divine crea-
ton as taught in the Bible, and
teaches, instead, that man descended
from a lower order of animals. The
first sentence sets forth the purpose
of those who passed the law. They
forbid the teaching of any evolu-
tionary theory that disputes the
Bible record OF mans creation, and
to make sure that there shall be no
misunderstanding, they place their own
interpretations on their language and
specifically forbid the teaching of any
theory that makes man a descendant
of any lower form of life.
What Scopes Taught
THE evidence shows that defendant
taught, in his own language as well
as from a book outlining the theory,
that man descended from lower forms
of life. Howard Morgans testimony
gives us a definition of evolution that
will become known throughout the
world as this case is discussed, Howard,
14-year-old boy, has translated the
words of the teacher and the text book
into language that even a child can
understand. AS he recollects it, the
defendant said, "A little germ of one
cell organism was formed in the sea
This kept evolving until it got to be
pretty good sized animal, then came
on to be a land animal, and it kept
evolving, and from this was man."
There is no room for difference of
opinion here, and there is no need of
expert testimony. Here are the facts,
corroborated by another student
Harry Shelton, and admitted to be true
by counsel for defense Mr.. White
superintendent of schools. testified to
the use of Hunters Civic Biology, and
to the fact that the defendant not only
admitted teaching evolution. but de-
clared that he could not teach it with
out violating the law. Mr.. Robinson.
the chairman of the school board, cor
roborated the testimony of Superin-
tendent White in regard to the de-
tendant's admissions and declaration
These are the facts. They are sufi-
clent and undisputed; verdict of
guilty must follow.
Righteousness of Law.
But the importance of this case
requires more. The facts and argu-
ments presented to you must not
only convince you of the Justice of
conviction in this case, but, while not
necessary to verdict of guilty, they
should convince you of the righteous
ness of the purpose of the people of
the State in the. enactment of this
law The State must speak through
you to the outside world and repel
the aspersions cast by the counsel
FOR the defense upon the intelligence
ana the enlightment of the citizens
OF tennessee. The people of this
State have a high appreciation of
the value of education. The State
constitution testifies to that in it's
demand that education shall be fos
tered and that science and literature
snail be cherished. The continuing
and increasing appropriations for pub
lie instruction furnish abundant
proof that Tennessee places a Just
estimate upon the learning that is Sc
cured in its schools
Religion is not hostile to learning:
Christianity has been the greatest
patron learning has ever had. But
christians know that the fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom now
Just as II has been in the past, and
they, therefore, oppose the teaching
Oh suesses that encourage Godlessness
among the students"
Admits Debt to Science.
Neither does Tennessee undervalue
the service rendered by science. The
see know how deeply mankind is in
deoted to science for benefits confer
red by the discovery of the laws of
nature and by the designing of ma
chlnery for the utilization of these
laws. Give science a fact and IT is
not only invincible, but it is of incal-
culable service to man. If one is en-
titled TO draw from society in propor-
ton to the service that he renders to
SOc1pTN iS oh
reward earned by those who have
given to US the use of steam, the use
or electricity, and enabled US to util-
lze the weight of water that flows
down the mountainside? Who will
estimate the value of the service rem
dered by those who invented the phon-
ograph, the telephone and the radio?
Or, to come more closely to our home
life, how shall we recompense those
who gave us the sewing machine, the
harvester, the threshing machine, the
tractor, the automobile and the meth
cd now employed in making artificial
ice? The department of medicine also
opens an unlimited field for invaluable
service. Typhoid and yellow fever
are not feared as they once were.
Diphtheria and pneumonia have been
robbed of some of their terrors, and
high place on the scroll of fame still
awaits the discoverer of remedies for
arthritis, cancer, tuberculosis and
other dread diseases to which mankind
is heir.
Evolution Mere Guess.
christianity welcomes truth from
whatever sourSe it comes, and is not
afraid that any real truth from any
source can interfere with the divine
truth that comes by inspiration from
God himself. 1t is not scientific truth
to which Christians object, for true
science is classified knowledge, and
nothing, therefore, can be scientific
unless it is true.
Evolution is not truth, it is mere
ly an hypothesis-it is millions sof
guesses strung together 1t had not
been proven in the days of Darwin
he expressed astonishment that with
two or three million species it had
been impossible to trace any species
to any other species. 1t had not been
proven in the days of Huxley, and it
has not been proven up to today 1t
is less than four years ago that Prof
Bateson came all the way from Lon
don to Canada to tell the American
scientists that every effort to trace
one species to another had failed
every one. He said he still had faith
in evolution, but had doubts about
the origin of species. But of what
value is evolution if it cannot explain
the origin of species? While many
scientists accept evolution as if it
were fact, they all admit, when
questioned, that no explanation has
been found as to how one species de-
veloped into another.
Chemical Proof Lacking.
Darwin suggested two laws, sexual
selection and natural selection. Sex
ual selection has been laughed out of
the classroom and natural selection
is heiner a ha rndnnad and