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A CABLE message dated February 20 from New York which has appeared in The Times states that on the previous day the House of Representatives of Tennessee defeated a motion to repeal the State law which prohibits the teaching of any theory that man is descended from a lower order of animals. The vote against repeal was 67 to 20, and the opposition to the repeal was led appropriately by the oldest member of the House, who opened his case by reading the first chapter of Genesis. It will be remembered that about ten years ago a young teacher of biology, J. T. Scopes, was convicted and fined at Dayton sunder this law. The case aroused great controversy in the United States, and was outstanding because of the eminence and the oratory of the counsel employed on each side. Perhaps it was outstanding also as a picture of the simple faith which holds that truth can be decided by lawyer's arguments, and that scientific fact can be settled by majorities. Fundamentalism is by no means dead in Great Britain, but with the growth of knowledge it is dying.
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Fundamentalism Undefeated. Nature 135, 336 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135336b0
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