Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-22
Move to Carry Evolution
Test to Supreme Court
AS Scopes is Convicted
Bible GOOD BOOK
BUT NOT INSPIRED
BY GOD DARR0W

Dayton, Tenn, July 21.-(AP)-
Forbidden to examine Clarence Dar-
row on the witness stand concern
ing the Chicago lawyers religious
VIEWS, William Jennings Bryan late
today administered the examination
through the medium of a statement.
Nine questions were pronounced and
these were answered by Mr.. Darrow
Darrow yesterday examined Mr..
Bryan and the process was to have
been reversed today when the court
decided all such testimony was in
competent, and eXpunged Bryan's
testimony.
The questions, with answers. are:
Mr.. Bryan: DO YOU believe in the
existence of God as described in the
Bible?"
Mr., Darrow: II do not know of
any description of God in the Bible.
We are informed, in the first part of
the Bible however, that God is
spirit. If Mr.. Bryan will describe
what he means by God, l probably
believe in his God"
Mr.. Bryan said, in effect, that God
is like a man and is fashioned in the
image of man. / do not believe in
this kind of God. AS to the orr
gin of the universe and who or what
is back of it, l do not pretend to
know"
Mr.. Bryan: "Do you believe that
the Bible is the revealed will OF God,
inspired and trustworthy?
Mr.. Darrow: Il think that there is
much that is of value in the Bible. l
do not believe, it was written or in
spred by God. | believe it should be
taken like every other kind of book,
and that the portions that are sub
lime are like such portions of any
great book-as much inspired as, say,
in His Image.
Mr.. Bryan: DO you believe in the
supernatural Christ foretold in the
Old Testament and revealed in the
New Testament"
Mr.. Darrow: II do not believe that
in the Old Testament or revealed in
the New Testament. | believe that the
Christ prophesied in the Old Testa-
ment was a great Jew who should de-
liver his people from their physical
bondage, and nothing else"
Mr.. 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 believe
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 described In
the four gospels"
Mr.. Darrow: Il do not believe in
miracles. | believe the universe acts
and has always acted in accordance
with an imrnutable law, and that
whatever may be back of the uni
verse las never violated these laws.
Mr.. Bryan: do you believe in the
immortality of the soul?"
Mr.. Darrow: Il have been search
ing for proof of this all my life, with
the same desire to find it that is IN
cdent to every living thing, ana l
have never found any evidence on
the subject"
Mr.. Bryan: "If you believe In evo-
luton, at what point in mans descent
from the brute is he endowed with
hope and promise of life beyond the
grave"
Mr.. Darrow: "I have no knowledge
on the question of when man first be-
lieved in life beyond the grave. l am
not at all sure whether many other
animals have not the same hope of
future life that man has. The origin
of this belief may have arisen in vivid
dreams concerning the return of the
dear, or, for all | know, from actual
evidence of the return of the dead
Il have never tried to impose my
views on religion on any human be-
ing" said Mr.. Darrow as he finished
his answers. Il have right to my
own views and try as hard to protect
the right of every other man to his
views as | do to protect my own.