Show FORBID THEORY Of EVOLUTION Passes Law to Conform With Bible NASHVILLE Tenn Tean March Harch 24 21 Tenne Tennessee see Monday rung don n the curtain on the tho Huxley Darwin I drama n hen Governor Austin signed a bill passed by the gen gen- gen general I oral eral assembly casting Into discard the theor of e evolution The bill bars the teaching leaching of I evolution In the public schools I normal and colleges colle of tho the tate state The governor In a message to the legislature accompanying the tho signed bill declared c evolution Sat at with the teachings of mans man's creation as a related In the Bible The governor defended his hie do- do de decision by declaring that the bill represented a II distinct protest against an Irreligious tendency to exalt so-called so science and deny the Bible In some som schools and quarters quarters-a a fundamentally fundamentally fundamentally tally wrong and fatally mischievous mischievous ous one In Its effects on our children our Institutions and out outS country The bill neither treed freedom om of religion nor strict separation of church and state the governor said eald those being principles In the country It Is manifestly ImpossIble the message continued for our ourI School system to omit all attention to the Bible and to wholly Ignore I It The new act makes It unla unlawful Cui for any teacher In the tho universities I or other of the tl state which obtain state fund funds to teach any theory that denies the tho story of the divine creation of mall mar as taught In the Bible and I to teach Instead that man has descended from a 0 a lower order ot of animals Ii J I It It will a ill III be see message pointed out hat chat this bill does not require any particular theory theo I or Interpretation of the Bible re- re reI re I garding mans man's creation to be taught In the public schools Under the th anti eVOlution act at the governor elaborated It It Is perfectly plain that an any creed or interpretation of the Bible touch touch- In ing touching mans man's creation Is permissIble under this bill which does not deny his divinity and does docs not teach tOach that man has been from ItIs a lower animal Indeed It ItIs Itis Is my understanding that those professing the theory of evolution ha hae 0 discarded that laos Certain Certain- ly Certainly It has haa never been established as a fact Tho The bill was passed In each house hou of ot the tho assembly by a heavY ote |