TEACHING EVOLUTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19032, 1 June 1925, Page 9

TEACHING EVOLUTION.

TENNESSEE PROHIBITION. DR. MAYO A BELIEVER* ,v 'l ■■i \ /,V; ij - NEW YORK. May 21, Mr. William Jennings (Bryan, the "sil-ver-tongued orator," who lias smral times been Democrat candidate for Hits United States Presidency,, will aid tho prosecution in a test case; in regard to the new State law in Tennessee which prohibits the teaching of evolution in public schools. A high school teacher, John Scope, who was arrested while lie was lecturing on evolution, will be defended by Judge Randolph Meal, one of tho most famous lawyers in the South. Commenting ort Mr. Bryan's stand against evolution, Dr. W. J. Mayo, in an interview at Rochester, said: "I find science to bo but an explanation of religion. Mr. Bryan may be sincere in his belief, but h<i 'has had no scientific training and coimqnently does not and cannob understand ;he facts relating to evolution, "There is no nutation among scientific men regarding evolution. Not that we are descended from monkeys, which is mere nonsense, but that life is constant evolution, morally, mentally and physically, and will continue to bo so. "Twelve yeare have been added to the average man's life in the past 40 years, and the so-callecl fast pace has had much to do with it. The motor-car takes people into the open, and other modern inventions tend to better living. Thoshort skirts women wear nowadays aro much healthier than tho old stylo of Jong ones." Mr. Bryan was largely responsible for the passage of the law of.-tho fsfaio o Tennessee which mate, lh. ***** evolution in schools a misdemeanour A national debate nn evolution is coming if Mr. Bryan fulfils his threat toattend the trial, t• 1 ' . ■■V'' - '