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...Chicago, it was announced that A Civic Biology, one of the text books containing an unBiblical account of the creation for the use of which Teacher Scopes was arrested to test the Tennessee law, had been placed on the reading list of that city's high and junior high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ballyhoo | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...problems, solved long since, to add to the host of contemporary questions and feuds? Is it possible that a great mass, perhaps the majority of citizens of this so-called enlightened country in this day and age still believe in the literal interpretation of the account of creation in Genesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD AXIOMS RE-EXAMINED | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

...General Assembly should decide that a literal belief in the Virgin Birth is essential because mentioned in the scriptures (even though Jesus never mentioned it), it must logically decree that a belief in the six-day creation is essential. In such an event, Dr. Coffin must leave the Church. And, more vital, thousands of young people must remain outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...Paleontology (the science of extinct vertebrate organisms) at Yale University, one of the leaders in his field, Director of the great Peabody Museum to be opened in New Haven within a few days. He, a believer that "Man . . .like other forms of life, is not the result of instantaneous creation, but of an orderly and long-drawn-out evolution," that "Man comes of a very ancient lineage," which measures "the dignity of his attainment"-he, Professor Lull, is himself an example of the dignity of that attainment: a "fine physical specimen," over 6 ft. in height, sturdy, straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...child, negroid-perhaps invaders from Northern Africa. Evolution and Religion. If one accepts evolution as a fact (not a theory) -and Prof. Lull insists that all informed scientists do-what is the religious consequence? It means rejection of the doctrine of the Ark, of a literal seven days of creation, of a direct creation of man and the higher animals. It leaves fully open the possibility of believing in potential creation, of a Creator having ordered things so that this evolution would come about through the ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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