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...Until well after World War I, the Southern Baptist trademark seemed to be high-decibel evangelism and opposition to the Pope, Darwin, smoking, dancing and drinking. Between the enactment of Prohibition and the 1928 defeat of Al Smith, Southern Baptism went through some of its rowdiest moments. Some memorably colorful but questionable leaders appeared -and in a denomination without central authority, where each church has complete local autonomy, no one could say whether or not they spoke for Southern Baptism. There was, for instance, J. Frank Norris, a Fort Worth Baptist preacher ("the Texas tornado"), who killed a political...
...year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton, Tenn. ("the buckle of the Bible Belt") while half the world wondered and a fair cross-section of it sat sweating in the courtroom. The charge: that Schoolteacher Scopes, by propounding Darwin's theory of evolution to his classes, had violated a Tennessee statute that refused him the right "to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation of man as taught by the Bible." Attorney for the prosecution: William Jennings ("The Great Commoner") Bryan, the most famous political...
...evidence as they addressed their elocution to the larger court of public opinion. "We have the purpose," Darrow thundered, "of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States." And Bryan roared: "If evolution wins, Christianity goes!" Both judge and jury were impregnably prejudiced against Darwin, and the defendant was found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of $100 (a higher court reversed the conviction on a technicality). Five days later, exhausted by the heat and burden of the trial, Bryan died...
...only change for the Crimson from the starting line-up that faced Holy Cross will be at left tackle where Darwin Wile will take over for senior Bob Pillsbury. After a minor neck injury in last week's encounter, Pillsbury is ready to play but will not see full-time duty...
Scientific Humanist. Something of T. H. Huxley's prodigious reputation-Darwin himself confessed that his own intelligence was "infantile" beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers...