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was intended.
First Separates Issues
1t follows, in part:
Let us separate the issues from
the misrepresentation. intentional
or unintentional. that have obscured
both the letter and the purpose of
this law (the evolution lawl
This is not an interference with
| freedom Of conscience. teacher
can think as he pleases and wor-
ship God as he likes. or refuse TO
worship God at all. He can believe
in the Bible or discard it: he can
accept Christ or reject him. This
law places no obligations or re-
straints upon him. And so with
freedom of speech; he can, SO long
as he acts as an individual. say
anything he likes on any subject.
This law does not violate any rights
guaranteed by the Constitution to
any individual. 1t deals with the
defendant nQt<as an individual. but
as an employee, an employee, an
official or public servant, paid by
the State and therefore, under in.
structions from the State.
UpllOlds States Right
1.-THE State had right 10 pass
this law. and the law represents the
determination of the parents to
guard the religious welfare of their
children. 1t need hardly be added
that this law did not have its origin
in bigotry. 1t is not trying to force
any relig on upon anybody. The
majority 1.-THE prosecution) is nor tIy-
ing TO establish religion or teach
it, it is trying to protect itself from
the effort of minority to force re-
ligion upon children under the curse
of teach .ng science.
What right has a little, Irre-
sponsible oligarchy of self-styled 'in-
tellectuals" to demand control Of the
schools of the United States, In
which $4,000 900 children are being
educated at an annual expense OF
81, 600, 900. 0002
Christians must. in every State
in. the union. build their own col.
leges in which to teach Christianity;
it is only simple justice that atheists.
agnostics and unbelievers should
build their own colleges if they want
to teach their own religious views
or attack the religious views Of
Others"
Here, Bryan described the law in
detail and reviewed the evidence
submitted in the Scopes trial He
continued:
Religion is not hostile to learn
ing; Christianity has been the
greatest patron saint learning has
ever had. But Christ ans know that
the fear of the Lord is the begin
ming of wisdom now, just as it has
been In the past, and they there
fore oppose the teaching of gussses
that encourage Godlessness among
students.
Great Field for Science
Neither does Tennessee under
value the service rendered by
scieIce. The Christian men and
women of Tennessee know how
deeply mankind is indebted to
science for the benefits conferred
by the discovery of the laws of ma
tire and by the designing Of ma
chinery for the utilization If these
laws. Give science fact and 1t is
nor only invincible, but it is of in.
calculable service to man.
christianity welcomes truth from
whatever source 1t comes, and is
not afraid that any real truth from
any source can interfere with the
Divine truth that comes by inspira-
ton 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 1t is true.
Evolution is not truth, 1t is mere
ly an hypothesis-it is millions Of
guesses strung together. 1t had
noe been proven in the days Of
Darwin; he expressed astonishment
that with 1000 900 or 100000
species it had been, impossible to
trace any species to any other
species. 1t had not been proven in
the days of Huxley and 1t has no;
been proven up to today.
Darwin suggested two laws,
sexual selection and natural selec-
tioT. Sexual selection has been
laughed out of the class room and
natural selection Is being abandoned
AID no new explanation is satisfac-
tory even to scientists. Some OF
the more rash advocates of evoiu-
ton are wont to say that evolution
is 6 s firmly established as the Co |
pernican theory. The absurdity Of
such a claim is apparent when we
remember that anyone can prove
the law of gravitatiOn by throwing
weight into the air and that any
one can prove the roundness of the |
world by going around it, while nc
one can prove evolution to be true
in any way whatever.
There is no more reason to be-
Iieve that men descended from some
inferior animal than there Is to be
lieve that a stately mansion has
descended from small cottage |
Eesemblances are not proof they |
simply put US on inquiry.
Lifting Power Apparent
But while the wisest scientists
cannot prove pushing power
such as evolution is supposed TO be,
there is a lifting power that any
child can understand. The plant
lifts the mineral up into world
still higher. So, it is and has been
reasoned by analogy, man rises NOT
by power within him. but only
when drawn upward by higher
power There is a spiritual graVlta,
ton that draws all souls toward
heaven Just as surely as there is
physical force that draws all mat
ter on the surface of the earth to-
ward the earth's center.
1.-THE evolutionist does not under,
take to tell us how protocol, moved
by interior and resident forces. sent
life up through all the, various
species. and cannot prove that there
was actually any such compelling
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