THE DAYTON TRIAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1925, Page 3

THE DAYTON TRIAL.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CASE FOR DEFENCE. NEW YORK, July 1,1

Mr Malone, one of the counsel on the defence in Professor Scope’s case, was the opener for the defence. He said that his purpose was to show that the Bible was a work of religion, a work which must he kept in tho field of Theology, and must not lie allowed to obtrude itself into the scientific held. Mr Malone remarked: "We be-

lie VO that God is a spirit, and «u those worshipping Him must worship in spirit and in truth. The prosecution, to succeed, must prove that Profpssor Scope's theory was a denial ot the story of the Divine Creation of man as the Bilile teaches, and, that, instead, he has taught that man is descended from lower animals.” The defence, he said, proposed to make it perfectly clear by the testimony of men learned in science and men learned in theology, that there are millions of people who believe in evolution and believe in the Bible story of creation, and that these people found no conflict between these two. Twice during the trial, he said, the prosecution had referred to man as descended from monkeys. I hat was not the view of the defence, said Mr Malone. “No scientist of any prominence holds such a view. The most that science says to-day is that one order of men, like the mammals is capable of walking erect, and using its forefeet as hands.”