Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-07-23
BRYAN SCORES
MONKEY ORIGIN
Pleads for Bibles Account
of Creation at Scopes
Trial.

layton, Tenn.-Dayton heard VIII
nam Jennings Bryan plead for revealed
religion, for salvation, for the Bibles
account OF creation. He ''scourged the
scorers and there was mighty APP
plause.
1hen Dudley Field Malone, Scopes
lawyer, arose and stated the case for
science-as not being in conflict with
real religion. He pleaded for the in
ulVlduals right to search for the
Lruth And, an amazing thing, he won
even greater cheers than Bryan.
Bryan had spoken. He had thrown
all his prepared arrows az barrow. He
had singled out the Leopold-Loeb case
as the one example of corrupted
youth, poisoned by the philosophy of
the modern schools, the students of
Nietzsche.
This was only one step from evolu-
ton, MIR. Bryan had argued. He had
offered 60 call million witnesses who
rejected evolution because 1t conhicted
with the Bible. He drew a picture OF
the family tree Of the evolutionists,
tracing i back to monkey and "lone-
~ cell in the bottom of the sea-" and
described how 1t took faith and moral
lily and God away from the children
and made scoffers Of them.
He spoke of the revealed religion"
OF the Bible, the beautiful story OF
Christ, the Virgin birth, the atone
ment, the resurrection, all the Chris
tian faith with its consultations for
mankind, claiming that this was elm
mated, destroyed, by science and their
hypothesis Of evolution. : e ridiculed
the majority of scientists as unbe-
levers, the Christian evolutionists as
having vague, PARKWAY God that
they could not feel. He spoke for i'm
mortality, for salvation, for all the re-
llglous doctrine that forms the founda-
ton OF the faith of the American ma
tion.
But the strange part of 1t was the
other side was with him. They, too,
accepted this consolation and this hope
and this salvation But they insisted
on their own freedom of interpreta-
ton. that the Bible must not be used
as textbook of science, not taught as
a course Of science In the schools, not
used in that way at all. It was book
for the private conscience.
William Jennings Bryan outlined
the states fight against expert wit
nesses on the theory of evolution In
stirring plea as follows:
IA Christian believes that man
comes from above, but the evolution
lists believe that man comes from be-
low.
Man Is shown as a mammal, scat
tered around somewhere inside cir
Gle with 3,499 other mammals. includ-
Ing elephants.
"a great game in public schools now
Is trying to find man. You can't find
him.
"Now here we have our glorious
pedigree and each child is expected to
take it home to his family to be CUB
stituted for the Bible family tree.
81 do not think evolution deserves
to be called theory, 1t Is hypo-
thesis.
Every theory has failed and today
there is not scientist who has traced
one species to another, and yet they
call US ignoramuses and bigots be-
cause we don't throw away our Bible.
"This doctrine Of evolution disputes
the very thought of the virgin birth,
eliminates the resurrection and the
atonement. Evolutionists leave no
room for miracles and the Bible
teens with miracles They deny by
logic every truth of the Christian re-
lgion.
experts cannot be permitted to
come into this court and testify that
evolution is not a bad doctrine.
IF they had half the affection for
Tennessee, indicated by their pres
snce here, they would have appeared
before the legislature"
Dudley Field Malone of counsel for
Scopes, defending the right to intro
luce expert testimony, pictured Will
dam Jennings Bryan In dangerous
role. He said:
whether Mr. Bryan likes it or not,
he is a mammal; he is an animal; he
Is a man.
"Since listening to the prosecution,
{ know of no clearer reason why sci
ence should be taught and the people
given a chance to be Open-mlnded.
"This trial has developed two
things: The difference between the
theological and the scientific frame Of
mind. Theology is ancient and lit
eral. 1t is accustomed to being closed
TO the mind. Science IS modern and
progressive. and is constantly. open to
the mind.
admit this scientific testimony and
the minds of the prosecution will be
improved and their souls purified.
ave are not afraid Of the truth. The
prosecution is excluding the jury from
hearing these scientific witnesses be-
rause Of their fear"
Won1on Farm Writer Dies