ORIGIN OF MAN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12185, 9 July 1925, Page 7

ORIGIN OF MAN

CREATION OR EVOLUTION? TENNESSEE CLINGS TO BIBLE TEACHER PROSECUTED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright Australian end N 7. Cable Association (Received July 8, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 7. A message from Dayton, Tennessee, states that the population, 20C0, of this rural town is expected to he augmented five-fold temporarily during the trial, beginning on Friday, of John Scopes, a young teacher of biology, who will be charged that he taught the Darwinian theory of evolution in violation of the repent Tennessee-statute forbidding instruction on matters contrary to the letter of the Bible on the subject <>f Creation. Scopes voluntarily submitted himself to arrest for the purpose of testing the validity of the statute, which he alleges violates the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, forbidding the abridgement of privileges and immunities or the deprivation of the liberty or property of citizens of the United States by individual States. An imposing array of counsel, including Mr Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, who defended Leopold and Loeb, and Mr Bainbridge Colly, who was Secretary of State in President Wilson’s Cabinet, contend that it is impossible for Scopes to exclude evolution in teaching biology, and that the prohibi-

tion of such teaching imperils his livelihood. A number of eminent scientists are expected to testify to the truth of this theory. s ,' The prosecution is headed by MrTWilliam Jennings Bryan, in conjunction’ with prominent churchmen, who are working for legislation against the Darwinian theorv in all States.