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Show The Tennessee Evolution Indictment Is a Step 1,000 Years Backward By LUTHER BURBANK, Plant Evolutionist. Every nation that does not believe in evolution will disappear from the earth. Indictment of the Tennessee teacher for teaching evolution is a step one thousand years backward. Evolution is truth, and truth must and will prevail. All my work with plants here in Santa Rosa daily demonstrates demon-strates evolution. All growth all life, is evolution. Io-norance always has and always will fight evolution, for evolution is I growth. The groups who are combating the theory of evolution have not I found the truth and do not believe in it. Daily I am working od new plant species which are produced through a knowledge of the laws of J evolution and which can be produced in no other way. j Evolution is contrary to theology, which may account for some of the j animosity it has aroused, but it is not contrary to religion. Theology is J man-made i religion is not. Troth is supreme. All life on the pbiwt is j one universal life, constantly evolving into higher and better forms not j at first created perfect, as some theolrgians would have us believe, hut i left to man for further evolution and improvement. J It is much more flattering to me to think that we are evolving into something belter, than, as the older theologians would have us believe, ! that we were created in the garden of Eden and fell into disgra.-e after- ward. Even a man who would construct a machine which would 1.-0 wrens so quickly and so thoroughly would be cr.lle.l a poor mechanic. The universal force which is crest iug all things is belied l.y such an implication. implica-tion. ' |
