Word: evolutionism
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Shades of the early Victorian period are rampant once more. Despite Mr. Bryan and the existence of certain dogmatic sects, most educated men had supposed, until the recent furor in Tennessee was stirred up, that the old debate of evolution vs. religion had been stilled forever. The truth of the...
Evolution. Attempts to hamper or prohibit the teaching of evolution were condemned in a resolution. "Any restriction on the proper study of scientific fact in regularly established scientific institutions is inimical to the progress of science and the public welfare. . . . A study of the development of mankind, ethnologically, embryologically and...
(2 of 3) individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine...
(3 of 3) associated with the skeleton of a Cro-Magnon, near Menton, were the skeletons of a woman and 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...
It was a reductio ad absurdum that the chemist and coal man, George W. Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug...