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Show uu HERESY 111, BAPTISTS HEAR Bryan Again Denounces Scientists Who Cling to Darwin Theory INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 14. Attacks on the alleged teaching of heresy by Henry Clay Vedder of the Crosser Theological seminary, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pa., were made at the meeting meet-ing of the Fundamentalist group of the Northern Baptist church Tui ira iy bv Dr. Frank ;oodchild, of Brooklyn. N. T. "An immunity bath from sin," a sentence which Dr. Vedder is charged with having often spoken and wrlt-tetn. wrlt-tetn. wa' the basis of tho attack by Dr. Gooodchlld. William Jennings Bry:n, former secretary of slate, and an elder In the Presbyterian church, addressed j the convention on "Tinkering With i the Mainspring " I "More than one-half of the prominent promi-nent scientists of the I'nited States teaching biology, psychology, geology and history, have discarded belief In a personal God and personal immortality. immor-tality. This Is what tho doctrine n evolution is doing for our children, ' I Mr Bryan said. "Darwinism load- to a denial of God. The law of principle so carefully care-fully worked out by Darwin, Is being given less and less weight with sel-entists. sel-entists. Tho followers of Darwin are. trying to retain evolution while rejecting re-jecting arguments that led Darwin to accept It as an explanation of the varied life on the planet. Some evolutionists evo-lutionists reject Darwin's line of de-Scendaftts de-Scendaftts and believe that man. In--te.'d 0f coming from an ape, bram h-ed h-ed riff from a common ancestor far ther back, but 'Cousin- Ape Is as objectionable ob-jectionable as 'Grandpa' Apo." |