Not heard of WJB before. This article seems to be claiming that he's unfairly maligned as an anti-evolution activist and that he was campaigning against specifi

Not heard of WJB before. This article seems to be claiming that he's unfairly maligned as an anti-evolution activist and that he was campaigning against specific books that wrongly associate evolution with eugenics. The detail is pretty thin so I did a bit of reasearch myself. And I don't buy it. Wikipedia mentions a few quotes from the Scopes court case which clearly show that he disagreed with the very concept of evolution on Biblical grounds, e.g.: > Bryan chastised evolution for teaching children that humans were but one of 35,000 types of mammals and bemoaned the notion that human beings were descended "Not even from American monkeys, but from old world monkeys" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial#Proceedings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial#Proceedings > Bryan opposed Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection for two reasons. He believed what he considered a materialistic account of the descent of man (and all life) through evolution to be directly contrary to the Biblical creation account. Also, he considered Darwinism as applied to society (social Darwinism) to be a great evil force in the world by promoting hatred and conflicts and inhibiting upward social and economic mobility of the poor and oppressed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan#Anti-evolution_activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan#Anti-ev...