American Minute with Bill Federer Evolution’s Inherent racism defended by Clarence Darrow: The Monkey Trial & William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow was the attorney who defended
EVOLUTION.

Darrow had previously defended Leopold and
Loeb, the teenage homosexual thrill killers who
murdered 14-year-old Robert “Bobby” Franks in
1924 just for the excitement.
Darrow obtained a pardon for antifa-type anarchists
in 1886 who blew up a pipe bomb in Chicago’s
Haymarket, Square, killing 7 policemen and injured
60 others.
A Haymarket Statue was dedicated to the fallen
policemen.
The policemen’s Haymarket Statue was blown up
by the socialist anarchist group Weather
Underground on October 6, 1969, prior to the
“Days of Rage” protests.

The statue was rebuilt, but the Weather
Underground blew it up again on October 6, 1970.
The Weather Underground’s leaders had a lasting
effect, as two of them, Bill Ayers and Bernadine
Dohrn, hosted a meeting in 1995 to launch Barack
Obama’s Illinois State Senate Campaign; and
another, Eric Mann, trained Patrisse Cullors, a
founder of Black Lives Matter.

Clarence Darrow defended the “mentally deranged
drifter” Patrick Eugene Prendergast in 1894 who
confessed to murdering Chicago mayor Carter H.
Harrison, Sr.
Darrow defended socialist organizer Eugene V.
Debs, who was prosecuted for instigating the
Pullman Railroad Strike which caused 30 deaths,
57 wounded, and $80 million in property damages
in 27 states.
Debs founded the Socialist Party of America,
which branched off the Communist Party USA in
1919.
Clarence Darrow represented the Western
Federation of Miners leaders charged with the 1905
murder of former Idaho Gov. Frank
Steunenberg.

In 1911, the American Federation of Labor arranged
for Darrow to defend the McNamara brothers.
The McNamara brothers were charged with
dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building which
killed 21 employees.
Implicated in bribing jurors, Darrow was banned
from practicing law in California.
In 1925, Darrow unsuccessfully
defended John Scopes, a
Tennessee high school
biology teacher who taught the
theory of origins called
“evolution.”

The attorney defending CREATION was the
Democrat Party’s three time candidate for
President, William Jennings Bryan.
Bryan objected to a tooth being presented as proof
of humans evolving from apes.
​
Later the tooth was found to be that of an extinct
peccary (pig).
William Jennings Bryan won the Scopes case on
JULY 21, 1925.
Though Darrow lost the trial, a
pro-evolution propaganda film
was produced in 1960 titled
Inherit the Wind.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz wrote on “The
Scopes Trial” in his book America on Trial: Inside
the Legal Battles that Transformed Our Nation
(eBook Edition: May 2004):

“The popular perception of what transpired in the
courtroom comes not from the transcript of the
court proceeding itself, but rather from the
motion picture … Inherit the Wind.
The William Jennings Bryan character, Scopes’s
prosecutor, was a burlesque of know-nothing
religious literalism …
… The actual William Jennings Bryan was no
simple-minded literalist, and he certainly was no
bigot.
​
He was a great populist who cared deeply about
equality and about the downtrodden.
Indeed, one of his reasons for becoming so deeply
involved in the campaign against evolution was
that Darwin’s theories were being used
misused, it turns out – by racists, militarists, and
nationalists to further some pretty horrible
programs …”
Dershowitz continued:
“The eugenics movement, which advocated
sterilization of ‘unfit’ and ‘inferior’ stock, was at
its zenith, and it took its impetus from Darwin’s
theory of natural selection.
German militarism, which had just led to the
disastrous world war, drew inspiration from
Darwin’s ideas on survival of the fittest.
The anti-immigration movement, which had
succeeded in closing American ports of entry to
‘inferior racial stock,’ was grounded in a mistaken
belief that certain ethnic groups had evolved
more fully than others …
… The Jim Crow laws, which maintained racial
segregation, were rationalized on grounds of the
racial inferiority of blacks.
… Indeed, the very book – Hunter’s Civic Biology
from which John T. Scopes taught Darwin’s
theory of evolution to high school students in
Dayton, Tennessee, contained dangerous
misapplications of that theory …”

Dershowitz added:
“Indeed, its very title, Civic Biology, made it clear
that biology had direct political implications for civic
society.
In discussing the ‘five races’ of man, the text
assured the all-white, legally segregated high
school students taught by Scopes that ‘the
highest type of all, the Caucasians, (are)
represented by the civilized white inhabitants of
Europe and America.’
The book, the avowed goal of which was the
improvement of the future human race, then
proposed certain eugenic remedies.”
Eugenic laws, based on evolution, were passed in
many states.
Virginia’s eugenic law, in 1924, allowed for the
state to sterilize its first victim, Carrie Buck, who
was a patient in the State Colony for Epileptics and
Feeble-minded.

A case was brought which went to the Supreme
Court.
There, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., gave
his infamous Buck v. Bell decision (1927), which
continued to allow the sterilization of people
without their knowledge or consent, stating:
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
Because of Holmes’ decision, Virginia continued
to sterilize more than 8,000 people until the
practice was stopped in 1974.
Holmes also applied evolution to his decision
making philosophy, calling it “legal realism,” letting
judges alter laws to adapt to changing social and
economic conditions.
Professor Alan
Dershowitz
continued his
critique of the high
school textbook
used by John
Scopes, Hunter’s
Civic Biology:
After a discussion of the inheritability of crime and
immorality, the author proposed an analogy: …
‘Just as certain animals or plants become parasitic
on other plants or animals, these families have
become parasitic on society.
They not only do harm to others by corrupting,
stealing, or spreading disease, but they are actually
protected and cared for by the state out of public
money …
They take from society, but they give nothing in
return. They are true parasites …'”
Dershowitz added:
“From the analogy flowed ‘the remedy’:
‘If such people were lower animals, we would
probably kill them off to prevent them from
spreading.
Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the
remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other
places and in various ways preventing
intermarriage and the possibilities of
perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.
Remedies of this sort have been tried successfully
in Europe and are now meeting with success in this
country.’
… These ‘remedies’ included involuntary
sterilizations, and eventually laid the foundation for
involuntary ‘euthanasia’ of the kind practiced in
Nazi Germany …”

Dershowitz continued:
“Nor were these misapplications of Darwinian
theory limited to high school textbooks. Eugenic
views held sway at institutions of higher learning
such as Harvard University, under racist
president Abbot Lawrence Lowell.
Even so distinguished a Supreme Curt justice as
Oliver Wendell Holmes upheld a mandatory
sterilization law on the basis of a pseudo-scientific
assumption about heritability and genetics.
His widely quoted rationale – that ‘three
generations of imbeciles are enough’ – was later
cited by Nazi apologists for mass sterilization …
… It should not be surprising, therefore, that William
Jennings Bryan … would be outraged – both
morally and religiously …
The textbook Scopes wanted to teach was … a
bad science text, filled with misapplied Darwinism
and racist rubbish.”
After the trial, William Jennings
Bryan wrote in his summary of the
Scopes trial of how science tells us
what we can do, religion tells us
what we should do:

“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a
teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it
adds no moral restraints to protect society from
the misuse of the machine.

It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it
constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm
tossed human vessel.

It not only fails to supply the spiritual element
needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob
the ship of its compass and thus endanger its cargo
…”
Bryan continued:
“In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it
has made war more terrible than it ever was before.
Man used to be content to slaughter his fellowmen
on a single plane, the earth’s surface.
Science has taught him to go down into the water
and shoot up from below and to go up into the
clouds and shoot down from above, thus making
the battlefield three times as bloody as it was
before;
​
but science does not teach brotherly love.
… Science has made war so hellish that civilization
was about to commit suicide;
and now we are told that newly discovered
instruments of destruction will make the cruelties of
the late war seem trivial in comparison with the
cruelties of wars that may come in the future …”

Bryan concluded:
“If civilization is to be saved from the wreckage
threatened by intelligence not consecrated by love,
it must be saved by the moral code of the meek
and lowly Nazarene.
His teachings, and His teachings alone, can
solve the problems that vex the heart and perplex
the world.”

Bryan’s 1925 statement was echoed by Winston
Churchill, who stated in 1941:
“But if we fail, then the whole world, including the
United States … will sink into the abyss of a new
Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more
protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
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William Jennings Bryan had been a Colonel in the
Spanish-American War, a U.S. Representative from
Nebraska and U.S. Secretary of State under
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson.
Bryan edited the Omaha World Herald and founded
The Commoner Newspaper.
Dying five days after the Scopes Trial, William
Jennings Bryan was so popular that his statue was
placed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall by the
State of Nebraska and the Post Office issued a
$2.00 stamp in his honor.
Bryan gave over 600 public speeches
during his Presidential campaigns, with
his most famous being “The Prince of
Peace,” printed in the New York
Times, September 7, 1913, in which he
stated:
“I am interested in the science of government but I
am more interested in religion …
​
I enjoy making a political speech … but I would
rather speak on religion than on politics.
I commenced speaking on the stump when I was
only twenty, but I commenced speaking in the
church six years earlier-and I shall be in the church
even after I am out of politics …”

Bryan reasoned:
“Tolstoy … declares that the religious sentiment
rests not upon a superstitious fear … but upon
man’s consciousness of his finiteness amid an
infinite universe …
​
Man feels the weight of his sins and looks for One
who is sinless.
Religion has been defined by Tolstoy as the
relation which man fixes between himself and his
God …
Religion is the foundation of morality in the
individual and in the group of individuals …”
Bryan added:
“A religion which teaches personal responsibility
to God gives strength to morality.
There is a powerful restraining influence in the
belief that an all-seeing eye scrutinizes every
thought and word and act of the individual …
One needs the inner strength which comes with the
conscious presence of a personal God …”
Bryan stated further:
“I passed through a period of skepticism when I
was in college …
The college days cover the dangerous period in the
young man’s life; he is just coming into possession
of his powers, and feels stronger than he ever
feels afterward-and he thinks he knows more than
he ever does know.
It was at this period that I became confused by the
different theories of creation.
… But I examined these theories and found that
they all assumed something to begin with …
A Designer back of the design – a Creator back of
the creation;
and no matter how long you draw out the process of
creation, so long as God stands back of it you
cannot shake my faith in Jehovah …
We must begin with something – we must start
somewhere – and the Christian begins with God …”
Bryan continued:
“While you may trace your ancestry back to the
monkey … you shall not connect me with your
family tree …
The ape, according to this theory, is older than man
and yet the ape is still an ape while man is the
author of the marvelous civilization which we see
about us …
This theory … does not explain the origin of life.
When the follower of Darwin has traced the germ
of life back to the lowest form … to follow him one
must exercise more faith than religion calls for
…”
Bryan explained:
“Those who reject the idea of creation are divided
into two schools, some believing that the first germ
of life came from another planet and others
holding that it was the result of spontaneous
generation …
Go back as far as we may, we cannot escape from
the creative act, and it is just as easy for me to
believe that God created man as he is as to
believe that, millions of years ago, He created a
germ of life and endowed it with power to develop
…”
He added:
“But there is another objection.
The Darwinian theory represents man as reaching
his present perfection by the operation of the law of
hate – the merciless law by which the strong
crowd out and kill off the weak …
I prefer to believe that love rather than hatred is
the law of development …”
William Jennings Bryan concluded:
“Science has disclosed some of the machinery of
the universe, but science has not yet revealed to us
the great secret — the secret of life.
It is to be found in every blade of grass, in every
insect, in every bird and in every animal, as well as
in man.
Six thousand years of recorded history and yet
we know no more about the secret of life than they
knew in the beginning …
If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the
cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to
make it burst forth from its prison walls, will he
leave neglected in the earth the soul of man, made
in the image of his Creator? …
The Gospel of the Prince of Peace gives us the
only hope that the world has.”
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated
in an address at the Memorial to William Jennings
Bryan, May 3, 1934:
“No selfish motive touched his public life; he held
important office only as a sacred trust of honor from
his country …
To Secretary Bryan political courage was not a
virtue to be sought or attained, for it was an inherent
part of the man.
He chose his path not to win acclaim but rather
because that path appeared clear to him from his
inmost beliefs.
He did not have to dare to do what to him seemed
right; he could not do otherwise …”
Franklin Roosevelt continued:
“It was my privilege to know William Jennings
Bryan when I was a very young man.
Years later both of us came to the Nation’s capital to
serve under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson …
It was Mr. Bryan who said: ‘I respect the aristocracy
of learning, I deplore the plutocracy of wealth but I
thank God for the democracy of the heart.’
Many years ago he also said: ‘You may dispute over
whether I have fought a good fight; you may dispute
over whether I have finished my course; but you
cannot deny that I have kept the faith.’
We who are assembled here today to accept this
memorial in the capital of the Republic can well
agree that he fought a good fight; that he
finished his course; and that he kept the faith.”–
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