18th AND 19th century scientists Pt 15

The ACLU (*American Civil Liberties Union) had
been searching for someone they could use to test the Butler
Act, which forbade the teaching of evolution in the
public schools in Tennessee. *John Scopes (24 at the time)
volunteered for the job. He later privately admitted that
he had never actually taught evolution in class, so the
case was based on a fraud; he spent the time teaching
them football maneuvers
(*John Scopes, Center of the Storm, 1967, p. 60). But no matter, the ACLU wanted to so humiliate the State of Tennessee, that no other state
would ever
dare oppose the evolutionists. The entire trial,
widely reported as the “Tennessee Monkey Trial,” was
presented to the public as something of a comic opera. (A
trained ape was even sent in, to walk around on a chain in
the streets of Dayton.) But the objective was deadly serious,
and they succeeded very well. Although the verdict
was against Scopes, America’s politicians learned the
lesson: Do not oppose the evolutionists.
The Scopes trial, the first event nationally broadcast
over the radio, was a major victory for evolutionists
throughout the world. Ridicule, side issues, misinformation,
and false statements were used to win the battle.
Nebraska Man Debunked (1922, 1928). In 1922 a
single molar tooth was found and named Hesperopithecus,
or “Nebraska Man.” An artist was told to make an
“apeman” picture based on the tooth, which went
around the world. Nebraska Man was a key evidence at
the Scopes trial in July 1925 (The evolutionists had little
else to offer!). *Grafton Smith, one of those involved in
publicizing Nebraska Man was knighted for his efforts in
making known this fabulous find. When paleontologists
returned to the site in 1928, they found the rest of
the skeleton,—and discovered the tooth belonged
to “an extinct pig”! (*R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution,
1990, p. 322). In 1972, living specimens of the
same pig were found in Paraguay.
George McCready Price (1870-1963) had a master’s
level degree, but not in science. Yet he was the staunchest
opponent of evolution in the first half of the 20th
century. He produced 38 books and numerous articles to
various journals. Price was the first person to carefully
research into the accumulated findings of geologists,
and he discovered that they had no evidence supporting
their claims about strata and fossils. Since his time,
the situation has not changed (*R. Milner, Encyclopedia
of Evolution, 1990, p. 194).
Along with mutations, the study of fossils and strata
ranks as the leading potential evidences supporting evolutionary
claims. But no transitional species have been
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found. Ancient species (aside from the extinct ones) were
like those today, except larger, and strata are generally
missing and at times switched—with “younger” strata
below “older.” Because there is no fossil/strata evidence
supporting evolution, the museums display dinosaurs
and other extinct animals as proof that evolution has
occurred. But extinction is not an evidence of evolution.
Much more on this in chapter 12, Fossils and Strata.
*Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), powerfully
affected the U.S. Supreme Court in both viewpoint and
legal precedents. He was forceful in his positions and a
leading justice for 30 years. The prevalent view since his
time is that law is a product of evolution and should
continually evolve in accord with social policy. But this,
of course, keeps taking America further and further
from the U.S. Constitution.
*Vladimir (Nikolai) Lenin (1870-1924) and *Josef
Stalin (1879-1953). Lenin was an ardent evolutionist who,
in 1918, violently overthrew the Russian government and
founded the Soviet Union.

According to *Yaroslavsky, a close friend of his, at
an early age, while attending a Christian Orthodox
school, Stalin began to read *Darwin and became an
atheist (*E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin,
1940, pp. 8-9). Stalin was head of the Soviet Union from
1924 to 1953. During those years, he was responsible for
the death of millions of Russians who refused to yield
to his slave-state tactics. The Soviet Union under Stalin
was an outstanding example of Darwinist principles extended
to an entire nation.
*Austin H. Clark (18
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