William Jennings Bryan Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Book, Teaching, America

• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Science, Acceptance

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teaching, America, Suffering

• Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Together, Evolution, Hypothesis

  William Jennings Bryan, Joe Cain (2009). “William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published”, p.14, Lulu.com

• Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

• If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

  William Jennings Bryan

  Winning, Evolution, Christianity

  "The great defender" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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