Science: Where Evolution Stands

William Jennings Bryan, speaking before the West Virginia State Legislature in a campaign for anti-evolution legislation similar to that recently defeated in Kentucky, said: "You need not punish these teachers of evolution. Men who believe they have the blood of brutes in their veins will never be martyrs for any cause." In a dispassionate and authoritative article in the New Republic, Vernon Kellogg, biologist, and Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, summarized the present status of organic evolution. Quotations: "I do not know of a single living biologist of high repute—and...