January, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



Pace Eleven 



FUNNYMENTALS 



"Better wipe out all the schools than 

 undermine the belief in the Bible by per- 

 mitting the teaching of evolution." 

 — The Rev. John Roach Straton, D.D., 

 Calvary Baptist Church, New York. 



"Take the evolutionists, infidels and no-, 

 lull teachers out somewhere and crucify 

 them, head downward, and we will have 

 a better country to live in and, instead of 

 these evolution and easy way ideas, teach 

 people the Word of God to go by, and all 

 will be well." 



— Correspondent of Greensboro Daily 

 News. Quoted by Sprading. 



"Worse than an_ assassin who kills the 

 body is he who shatters the faith of 

 youth." 



— Kansas City Preacher at Christian En- 

 deavor Convention. Denver. 



"In another two years, from Maine to 

 California and from the Great Lakes to 

 the Gulf, there will be lighted in this coun- 

 try countless bonfires, devouring those 

 damnable and detestable books on evolu- 

 tion." 



— Edivard Young Clarke of the Supreme 

 Kingdom quoted by The Post of Birm- 

 ingham, Ala. 



"The doctrine of Charles Darwin, in por- 

 portion as it dominates the future, the 

 biological theory of evolution to the ex- 

 tent of its final acceptance, will make the 

 recent baptism of blood, brought on by 

 Nietzsche and Treitschke under the dom- 

 ination of that biological theory, as com- 

 pared with the baptism yet to come, as a 

 local shower to the flood that will pre- 

 vail over every mountain.' 

 — W. B. Riley, in The Theory of Evolution, 



"The consensus of scholarship can go 

 to hell for all I care." 



— Billy Sunday in sermon. 



"Evolution is in no sense a science, but 

 is instead an irreligious philosophy of 

 creation and all existences, and its teach- 

 ing in tax-supported schools is absolutely 

 contrary to both the spirit and language 

 <>f the United States constitution and of 

 the several state constitutions as well; on 

 the ground that the Bible was banished 

 from the public schools because it taught 

 a distinct religion, so should all Chris- 

 tian and even all fairminded citizens now 

 demand that the Darwin philosophy, by 

 nature and constitution agnostic and athe- 

 istic, shall be at once and forever removed 

 from our tax supported schools and no 

 advocate of the same be permitted to 

 voice himself before the students upon the 

 same." 



— From resolution adopted by Worlds 

 Christian Fundamentals Association at 

 its convention in Atlanta in 1927. 



EVOLUTION IN SOUTH 

 CAROLINA 



By Robert F. Hester 



Vl/TrHIN the past few months, two 

 university professors have been 

 ousted from their positions in South Caro- 

 lina educational institutions because of 

 their pro-evolutionary leanings. One was 

 a Professor Pickens, of Furman Univer- 

 sity, Greenville, S. C, and the other Prof. 

 William G. Burgin, professor of sociology 

 at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C. The 

 fact of chief significance in connection 

 with the latter was that the decision of 

 the college against him was at the last 

 unfavorably influenced by Gov. John G. 

 Richards of South Carolina. Both men 

 had enjoyed excellent records at the in- 

 stitutions previous to their announcements 

 of their evolutionary tendencies. 



But this apparently weighed little with 

 Governor Richards. In his inaugural ad- 

 dress, it is reported that he made it plain 

 that no man or woman who did not im- 

 plicitly accept the story of creation as told 

 in Genesis should be tolerated in educa- 

 tional institutions supported in whole or 

 in part by state funds. In a statement 

 subsequently published in a Columbia 

 newspaper, he declared that "any person or 

 persons who are discovered to be antag- 

 onistic toward the Christian religion or 

 the Bible, either the Old Testament or the 

 New," would be rooted out of the schools 

 of the state. 



The ultimate destiny of South Carolina 

 under such executives is rather difficult to 

 predict. The whole matter hinges upon 

 the question as to whether or not the 

 State"s population as a whole has or exer- 

 cises more brains than its chief executives. 

 If it has not, then its destiny may be 

 safely predicted — it will become, if not 

 the most criminal, at least the most ridi- 

 culous state in the American Union. 



Nor is Richards the first governor of 

 this state who has upheld fundamentalism 

 and opposed even a slight tendency to the 

 acceptance of evolution among its teachers. 

 Former Gov. Cole L. Blease once advocated 

 the strict examination of all prospective 

 teachers as to their religious beliefs before 

 their admission into South Carolina's 

 schools and colleges. If their beliefs 

 should thus be found to be in any sense 

 antagonistic to the fundamentalists' creed, 

 he recommended in strong terms that they 

 should be barred from the state's educa- 

 tional institutions. And this same fellow 

 was thereafter elected to the Senate of the 

 United States. 



So long as these conditions obtain in 

 South Carolina, the state can hardly de- 

 fend itself against the ridicule and derision 

 of civilization. 



"Take a jackass, a hog and a skunk 

 and tie them together and you have a 

 scientific evolutionist or modernist." 

 —Rev. Charles F. Bluske, of Asheville, 

 quoted in The American Mercury. 



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