Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reply to Professor Mather's views herein contained I say with the Frenchman. "Il ne s'agit pas de cela." It is not a question of the results which would arise either from the suppression of the investigation and teaching of evolution, or from the freedom to continue such investigation and teaching. Each side of the controversy dodges the main issue when it asks about the possible outcome of a dissemination of evolutionary theory. When the scientist approaches the solution of a new problem, he does not hesitate to search for the truth of the matter, regardless of whether...
Professor Mather in the report of his evidence given at Dayton quoted in the CRIMSON of October 13, makes the following statement: "We should go back into chaos if we took out of the laboratories, out of the dissecting rooms, out of the field of investigation, this great doctrine of evolution...
...Thinks Mather's Evidence Vunerable...
That this evidence, and particularly the report submitted by Professor Mather, is "very vulnerable," is the opinion of Dr. Straton. He goes on to urge that a debate should be arranged in Cambridge between himself and Professor Mather. He says, in part: "The fact that he is a prominent figure in both the scientific and religious worlds would make him a very appropriate person to figure in such a discussion, especially as the anti-evolutionists had no chance to answer him and the other scientists at Dayton...
...Christian as well as a geologist, Professor Mather finds no difficulty in accepting the theory of evolution, and believes that the apparent contradictions in the Bible to any such theory can be explained with simplicity. He believes that the only significance of such a work as Genesis is to present the spiritual truth about God and the origin of the universe, and that it should be regarded as a textbook of biology. He goes on to say, in the report of his evidence given at Dayton...