AGAINST THE BIBLE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9980, 10 July 1925, Page 2

AGAINST THE BIBLE.

YOUNG TEACHER OF BIOLOGY

Electric Telegrapn—Press Association NEW YORK, July 8.

A message from Dayon Tennessee, states the 2000 population of this rural town is expected to be augmented fivefold temporarily during the trial of John Scopes, a young teacher of biology, who will be charged that he taught the Darwinian theory 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 creation. Scopes voluntarily submitted himself to- arrest for the purpose of testing the validity of the statute, which he alleges violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution (forbidding the abridgment of privileges and immunities on the- deprivation of 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 (Secretary of State in Dr. Wilson’s Cabinet), contend that it is impossible for Scopes to exclude evolution in teaching biology and that- the prohibition of such imperils his livelihood. A number of eminent scientists are expected to testify to the truth of ihe theory. The prosecution is headed by Mr Wm. Jennings Bryan, in conjunction with prominent churchmen, who are working for legislation against the theory in all states.