EVOLUTION THEORY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 86, 6 January 1926, Page 4

EVOLUTION THEORY

FINAL BRIEF IN SCOPES CASE ARGUMENTS AGAINST CONVICTION Bi Teuegkaih.— Press Association:. CoPYHicni'(Rcc. January 5, 7.40 p.im) New York, January 1. A telegram from Nashville statesthat the final brief in the Scopes case has been filed bv tlic defence in the Tennessee Supreme Court. The brief is signed bv an array of noted attoinevs,' and presents many and complex arguments from history, jurisprudence, religion, science, philosophy, sociology, and the humanities why the conviction should be set aside. The brief says: “These legislators have seemingly forgotten the rivers of blood that flowed through the ages of religious controversy. They have seemingly forgotten that the majority of today will be a minority to-morrow, and that a slight step taken by them to promote some religious doctrine .by preventing the teaching of a scientific theory mav to-morrow be used against them by those who shall wish to promulgate an entirely different and more overwhelming faith.” The prosecution also will file a brief shortly, and the appeal probably will lie heard late in Jnauarv or early in February.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (John Thomas Scopes, a young teacher of biology, of Dayton, Tennessee, was charged early in July, 1925, that he taught the Darwin tbeorv of evolution in violation of a recent Tennessee statute forbidding instruction on matters contrary to the letter of the Bible on the subject of the Creadon. The case lasted until July 21, when Scopes was found guilty and fined a hundred dollars.]