Show B RYAN ANSWERS CHARGES MADY MADE E BY EDUCATOR I 1 S prominent educators at chicago a few daa days s ago denounced william jennings dryan bryan as a medievalist and roundly criticized him for his opposition to the teaching of evolution in the public schools at the request of the international news service the commoner has written the following answer rt to his critics BY WILLIAM JENNINGS bryan written for the I 1 N S copyright 1922 by international news service washington march 81 8 I 1 am not disturbed by any criticism made by any man mail who ho thinks lie is the descendant seen dant ant ot of an ape he may boast of 0 his brute ancestry but it is a peculiar pride and there are comparatively few who share it with him when a college professor winds his intellectual tall tail round a limb of dar finx family treo tree lie he naturally looks down with contempt upon ordinary people who walk on the ground r und and ul are content to believe that they were made in the image of god but while this gives amusement to the tree mau man it does oes not disturb the people except when such men take charge of the educational system ot of the country bad and undermine the religious faith ot of the children entrusted to their care with somewhat like a million specie of life they have been unable to prove that a single specie came from another flimsy evidence upon which dar finites build their fate would not bo be sufficient to convict a person ot of petty larceny in any court in the civilized world and yet upon this so called evidence they the bible darwinism made an all agnostic out ot of darwin you can silence any of these wor shippers of a jungle ancestry by asking them to put in writing the vital truths which they reject when they consistently apply carwins Dar wins hypothesis to the bible I 1 have been trying to get some ot of these insolent gu guessels guessers gue essers to answer the question but they avoid it itchey It they will show how little ot of the bible to be consistent with darwinism the people will understand the extent to to which they undermine faith with their ridiculous guesses they do not believe in the creation of 0 man by separate act as a part of gods plan they see no divine purpose in mans presence here they exclude the miraculous and the supernatural as inconsistent with evolution they libel christ by denying deny irig hla his virgin birth they rob him ot of his deity arid and scout at his resurrection in tact fact they so 80 belittle him that they regard the finding ot of the fossil remains ot of what they call a five toed horse as a more important event than the birth of 0 the savior deseret news |