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The VANCOUVER SUN: Jan. 20, 1973 The original Scopes trial background public schools and arrested teachers who propagated the theory. In a world increasingly oriented toward science and technology, however, the scientific view has prevailed. The laws against teaching evolution have been repealed or invalidated. But, at the Same time, pupils are likely to be exposed to the biblical view that man was created fully formed by God, either as part of their school studies or in religion classes.

Sometimes an effort is made to reconcile the two ideas, as in the schools of Israel. "The teaching of evolution is not a problem for us," an Israeli educator said. The lack of controversy may stem from division of the country's public schools. In the 75 per cent of the Israeli schools that are non-religious, the origin of man and the universe are presented "in strictly scientific terms." The Bible is treated as literature, but there is no formal effort to reject the Bible as divine revelation. Pupils are free to interpret the Bible in supernatural terms.

In the religious schools, which also are state-supported, both biblical and scientific interpretations of origin are taught, but not as conflicting ideas. Bather, the Israeli educator said, teachers try to harmonize the two ideas through a "liberal" interpretation of the biblical view "to try to solve the contradictions between the Bible and science." The Genesis account of the creation of the world in six days, for instance, is not represented as meaning literally six '24-hour periods. Instead, it is interpreted as meaning six periods of millions or hundreds of millions of years. British schools are required to teach religion, a policy reflecting long Anglican and Catholic influence. Religion textbooks are not standardized, but are selected by individual principals and teachers.

CLARENCE DARROW, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Monkey Trial adversaries By STEVE HARVEY In the spring of 1925 in Dayton, a small group of citizens sat down in Frank Robinson's drug store to sip nickel lemonades and plot the arrest of their friend, John Scopes. But first they needed Scopes' permission. They wanted him to serve as a test case in their fight to bring down a law that made it a crime in Tennessee to teach evolution "That man has descended from a lower order of animals." Scopes, 24, taught science at the local high school, doubled as football coach, and was a generally popular figure about town, although a few disapproved of the fact that he smoked cigarettes and danced. Fetched from a nearby tennis court, he at first expressed uncertainty over whether he had even taught evolution. He was reminded that he had served as a substitute in a biology class for the last two weeks of the school year.

"Didn't you cover evolution?" he was asked. "Well, we reviewed for final exams, as best I can remember," Scopes answered. But he noted that the theory of evolution was an integral part of the course textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology, and so he agreed to stand trial. The meeting quickly broke up so that a warrant for his arrest could be sworn out. The scene was set for the Monkey Trial, as H.

L. Mencken called it. Scopes, meanwhile returning to his tennis match. Anyone arriving in Dayton in July, 1925, could have been excused for believing, that a carnival not a trial was being staged. There was considerable excitement among the two-legged primates of the town.

Banners, flags and posters (most picturing apes) were everywhere, as well as stands hawking hot dogs, lemonade, Bibles and biology textbooks. Scopes" guilt under the Tennessee law was obvious. But defence lawyer Clarence Darrow wanted to expose what he termed the "fool religion" of the fundamentalists, hoping at the same time that a higher court would overturn the anti-evolution law. Wrote Frederick Lewis Allen: "The evidence ranged all the way from the admission of a 14-year-old Howard Morgan that Scopes had told him about evolution and that it hadn't hurt him any, to the estimate of a zoologist that life had begun something like 600 million years ago (an assertion that caused gasps and. titters of disbelief from the rustics in the audience)." Evolution, Bible clash around world By DONALD BREMNER In Paris a child is taught that he is the prod- uct of evolution.

In Rome, he is taught that he was made by God. In Tel Aviv, he is presented both ideas, with emphasis on evolution. Although they are all humans, presumably descended from common ancestors, school children around the world may get different answers when they first confront the question that has perplexed thinkers over the ages: how was the universe formed and how did man get here? The classroom has often become the arena for the struggle for the minds of the young. Attempting to preserve the biblical idea of creation, some states in the United States forbade the teaching of evolution in the A Protestant or Catholic teacher in elementary school, one Anglican educator said, can teach the biblical version of creation "not as an inspired book of truth, but as myths, which are not untrue but express what some people feel is the way the world was created." Evolution can be taught to elementary school pupils in science or history classes, the educator said, to explain the scientific background of man's development. "Genesis," he said, "is not concerned with that at all," but with the definition of God as "the complete author of all things, the one who brought everything into being." Thus it is possible for a British elementary school pupil to be taught the biblical version of creation though not in the fundamentalist, literal sense and also to be taught that man evolved along Darwinian lines.

Both Protestant and Catholic educators agree that the two ideas are not mutually exclusive. French and German students get a similar mixture. Italy's schools, under strong Roman Catholic influence, appear to lean more heavily toward the religious version than do schools of almost any other country. Italian students are kept to a supernatural belief in creation up through the first few years of high school, when they first begin to hear of philosophers holding other ideas. Natural sciences in high school introduce evolution and Darwin's thesis, but discussions of them do not go very deep.

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25, at the Planetarium, 1100 Chestnut; and at the Del Motor Hotel, 10662 King George Highway, Surrey. All lectures begin at 8 p.m. and admission is $1.50. 15 Glorious Days 10 Full Days in Israel EVANGELISTIC The Inner Peace Move- ment, a group stressing self-awareness as the key to greater confidence, happiness and personal satisfaction, will hold an introductory lecture on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Avalon Hotel, North Vancouver.

IPM, which claims to have brought inner peace to 50,000 persons in Europe and the U.S., uses sensitivity workshops, counselling, and personal evaluation to find personality strengths and weaknesses, then teaches techniques aimed-, at using extra-sensory tion to maximize those strengths. IPM claims everyone has access to psychic powers. v. The trial was bitter. The Tennessee attorney-general charged that the teaching of evolution was "robbing" Tennessee's children "of their chance of eternal life." Darrow said the right to think was on trial.

The climax came when prosecutor William Jennings Bryan consented to take the stand as an expert on the Bible. The court had been moved outdoors, and Bryan sat in the hot sun mopping his forehead while Darrow, thumbs intertwined in his suspenders, conducted a 90-minute interrogation. Bryan reaffirmed his belief in the literal word of the Bible: that the world was created in 4004 B.C., that the flood occurred around 2348 B.C., that Eve was made out of Adam's rib. Then he. gave ground when Darrow asked: "Do you think the earth was made in six days?" Besponded Bryan: "Not six days of 24 hours." There were gasps in the audience from fundamentalists.

That was no literal interpretation. Referring to the passage in which, God condemned the snake to crawl upon its belly for tempting Eve, Darrow asked: "Have you any idea how the snake went before that time? Do you know whether he walked on his tail or not?" "No, sir. I have no way to know," Bryan answered. Even Bryan's supporters were laughing now. At last Darrow ended the examination and Bryan sank down in his chair, muttering almost incoherently, "Slurring the Bible slurring the Bible Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but a higher "court overturned the conviction on a technicality.

Bryan, a broken man, died five days after the Dayton trial endedat the age of 65. The cause of the fundamentalists was badly hurt. "Darrow made monkeys out of them," one reporter wrote, although the anti-evolution law stayed on the books until 1957. Scopes died in 1970, still uncertain, he later admitted, whether "we covered evolution" during his brief but historic two weeks as a substitute teacher of biology. TABERNACLE 1 85 E.

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