Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-07-24
U. V.PROFESSOR
CALLS IT MISTAKE
Says Trii Does Not Show That Bible
Is Not In Harmony

said William A. Kepner, professor OF
biology Of the University of Virginia
who is in Dayton. Tenn, where he
was called by Dudley Field Malone
10 testify in defense of John T.
Scopes
lfsihe fundamentalist would stay
ON his side, so as not to interfere
with the honest efforts of scientists.
and furthermore. if the scientists
would tolerate the effect of faith on
the part of the fundamentalists to find
guidanee and consolation, the two
would eventually come to realize that
they are both seeing each side of
the dual conditions under which life
presents itself.
Science Dogmatic 25 Years
Science was dogmatic 25 years
ago with reference to what consti-
tutes matter. but the more we come
to know of matter the less real it be-
comes | know of an English physi-
cist who. when asked what matter
was, replied that on Mondays, We'd
nesdays, and Fridays he thinks in
terms of mass, while on Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Saturdays he thinks
in terms of energy He did not say
so. but l suppose he rested on the
seventh day.
More and more, the biologist has
come to see that the matter con-
tanned in his body is highly tran
silent. The living body is a focal re-
gion through which matter is stream
ing, just as the fame on a gas jet
is a point through which matter is
flowing
"A college freshman who has seen
gas flame today would realize the
utter impossibility of expecting the
gas fame to recognize him tomor-
row; for when the morrow would
come, the material then in the flame
would not be the material that had
confronted him the previous day.
A Different Proposition
IF this same freshman, however,
upon returning home at Christmas,
were to find a certain maiden unable
to recognize him as the man that
had left her for college in Septem-
Der, he would not be satisfied to have
the failure in recognition explained
by having it pointed out that physic-
ally the maiden was not the same /
at Christmas as she had been in Sep
TENDER.
Though matter had been flowing
protopIasmic units for the months
passed in his absence, he would ex-
pect more of this living flame than
he would of the fame of the gas
lamp.
years ago. distinguished anat-
omist said, Il have dissected many
human bodies and have never found
SOUL To this I may make rejoin-
der that l have studied many Amoe-
bias. and have always found some
thing more than matter in each of
them.'' Professor Kepner went on to
say.
ITO a self-concerned human being
the body becomes less real and the
personality the outstanding reality
of the universe as Haldane puts it.
Concerned With Spiritual Side
Mans evolution, therefore, is no
longer concerned with the body
but with the mind or the psychic,
or if the fundamentals wish it, with
the spiritual side"
DIR. Kepner, in his recent publish
ed book. Animals Looking Into the
Future states that Man is no long
err an animal that lives by bread
alone 1t is his opinion that biol
ogy lays foundation for the most
that faith prompts us to hope for.
''In man. this teacher of biology
has found, life seems to find its
moral effort Man is a unique ami
NAL, in that he must discriminate
between good and evil.
During historic times, mans con-
seriousness has been awakening. His
tory records the days when man dis
eliminated between right and wrong
on the basis of might To the peo-
pies of ancient Ninevah, Babylonia,
Syria and Egypt, might was right.
Out of the blood effort of this strug-
gle of early humanity came the jew
ish ideal that justice was right.
Seek to Deal CharitabIy
"Men now seek to deal not merely
justly but charitably with their fell
low men. In so far as men succeed
in discriminating between the char
table and the uncharitable, they are
exercising their full power of dis
elimination and are evolving.
1T behooves modern man il he IN
to attain his full personal develop
ment or evolution to make a three
fold choice. He must discriminate
between food and non-food: the aes-
thetic and the non-aesthetic, and the
charitable and the uncharitable.
'Thus 1t happens that not only do
the mere physical demands of life
play upon and guide mans evolution,
but mans development involves in a
peculiar sense the psychical and the
ideas of the aesthetic and the moral.
I'm the progress of the lower ami
mails it is the physical self that is
shaped and evolved to meet the de-
o-Ia of tho f14fura For anupta