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The issue contains an abstract from Dr. Riddle's anti-anti-evolution blast delivered to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last year; an article by Dr. Gregory called Nature's Upstart: Homo Sapiens, with a chart of the evolution of the brain from primitive fish to man; other articles by faculty members of Brooklyn College and the University of Utah. An article entitled Evolution Remains Darwinian, by the late Henshaw Ward (author of Evolution for John Doe) points out that the terms Evolution, Darwinism and Natural Selection were confused in the minds of many people who concluded that because the importance of natural selection was doubted by certain biologists, the fact of evolution itself was being called in question. Paleontologist Frank Morton Carpenter of Harvard recalls that at one time or another the presence of fossils in the earth was attributed to 1) a plastic force in the earth; 2) an attempt by the Creator to deceive man; 3) a collision between earth and the tail of a comet.
In a department called Funnymentals, attacks from the enemy camp are quoted. Sample, from the Rev. R. L. Stephens of San Antonio: "Any thinking man, who knows what evolution is, would rather be known as a horse thief, a pirate or a cowardly bushwhacker, than to be known as an evolutionist. . . . Evolution is a pack of damnable lies as black as the soot on the walls of hell; too filthy for carrion, too shameful for dens, too foul for the sewer and too prostitute for Jezebel or Semiramis."
*Mr. Scopes is now a geologist for a Texas mining company.