CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

Paul Fordyce
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Paul spent 38 yrs as a partner of a boutique commercial litigation firm in the Sydney, Australia, CBD. He frequently appeared before the NSW Supreme Court & the Federal Court of Australia, inc having a major flaw in the Corporations Act amended by the Australian parliament. Retired, his forensic skills are now turned to the major issues in our society. Exposing the errors, or worse still, lies in behind beliefs commonly held, even taught to our children, that are seriously and dangerously wrong. The Truth is always quiet. It is lies that are loud. CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy).

  1. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 39. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – She Murdered Her Philandering Husband in Court and He Got Her Off because She Was a Widow

    5d ago

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 39. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – She Murdered Her Philandering Husband in Court and He Got Her Off because She Was a Widow

    William Jennings Bryan was pitched against Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial – and it wasn’t a fair fight. John Farrell, in his biography, Clarence Darrow – Attorney for the Damned, wrote of one of Darrow’s more remarkable court wins – and he had had many remarkable court wins: He was a practicing defense lawyer, and in his time he represented … many a scorned woman like Emma Simpson, the socialite who smuggled a handgun into court and shot her philandering husband in the midst of their divorce proceeding. "You've killed him!" said a shocked clerk. "I hope so," said Emma. Meeting the classic definition of chutzpah, Darrow convinced the jury to have mercy on the widow. The types of cases and the types of clients that Darrow appeared in and represented were in an entirely different league to the ones that Bryan was used to. Darrow had been almost constantly in practice with the most remarkably complex variety of cases imaginable. Bryan had not practised law for 30 years. The legal contest was one between Darrow, armed with the best Samurai sword, and Jennings, armed with an airline plastic knife. But, having said that, the results weren’t what you would expect. Tag words: William Jennings Bryan; Clarence Darrow; Scopes Monkey Trial; John Farrell; Clarence Darrow – Attorney for the Damned; Prendergast; Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; Bobby Franks; James McNamara; Los Angeles Times; Big Bill Haywood; Red Scare; Isaac Bond; Scottsboro boys; Ossian Sweet; Henry Sweet; Emma Simpson; Edward J Larson; ACLU; American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; Christianity; The Commoner; Omar Khayyam; Dudley Field Malone; Nietzsche; Felix Frankfurter; Bainbridge Colby;

    28 min
  2. CYKIAE Season 15. Part 38. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – William Jennings Bryan the Legend Prosecuting Scopes.

    May 25

    CYKIAE Season 15. Part 38. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – William Jennings Bryan the Legend Prosecuting Scopes.

    William Jennings Bryan had won the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for President against William McKinley in 1895. For the same elections, Clarence Darrow had secured for himself the nomination of the Democratic party to run for Congress. Darrow in fact spent most of his time campaigning vigorously for Bryan, to the detriment of his own campaign. In the result both he and Bryan failed in their bids for office. John Farrell, in his book Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned wrote: Darrow blamed Bryan, in part, for the Democratic defeat. When they met the following spring, Darrow was "terribly raw" to Bryan, said Masters. "You'd better . . . study science, history, philosophy and quit this village religious stuff," Darrow told Bryan before a group of fellow Democrats. "You're a head of the party before you are ready and a leader should lead with thought." Bryan turned to the others and said, "Darrow's the only man in the world who looks down on me for believing in God." "Your kind of a God," Darrow replied. Bryan's success gnawed at Darrow. He despised Bryan's dull intellect and complacency. Soon, Darrow would be telling a story of how Altgeld, on the day after the Cross of Gold speech, had labeled Bryan a "damn fool." "I've been thinking over Bryan's speech," Altgeld had sneered, according to Darrow. "What did he say anyhow?" For thirty years, Darrow's envy and antipathy toward Bryan would build — until he was given, and took, the opportunity to destroy him. In part the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial is the story of Darrow finally seizing the chance to take his revenge on Bryan. Tag words: William Jennings Bryan; William McKinley; Clarence Darrow; John Farrell; Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned; Scopes Monkey Trial; Edward Larson; Summer for the Gods; The Boy Orator of the Platte; Great Commoner; Peerless Leader; Cross of Gold speech; Darwinism; majoritarian; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Theory of Evolution; H G Wells; Dudley Field Malone; John Randolph Neal;

    26 min
  3. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 37. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – A Boy Named Sue.

    May 18

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 37. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – A Boy Named Sue.

    Now here’s what could sound like a very modern story. Only it isn’t. In this part I’m going to be telling you about Sue Hicks of Tennessee. Except Sue Hicks isn’t the 1925 Southern Belle that you might be thinking she is, in any event Sue Hicks wasn’t originally from Tennessee. Although in one sense Sue was. But in another she wasn’t – but one thing is for sure and certain, Sue Hicks played an essential part in what was soon to become known as the Monkey Trial. Tag words: Sue Hicks; Monkey Trial; Scopes Monkey Trial; Edward J Larson; Summer for the Gods;Leopold Loeb Case; John Farrell; Clarence Darrow – Attorney for the Damned; American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU: George W Rappleyea; Fred E Robinson; Walter White; John Godsey; Herbert E Hicks; Sue K Hicks; Wallace Haggard; John T Scopes; Hunter's Civic Biology; William Jennings Bryan; Clarence Darrow; Mencken;

    26 min
  4. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 36. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Hitler On the Side of Christian Fundamentalists.

    May 11

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 36. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Hitler On the Side of Christian Fundamentalists.

    If you get it right all the time, you’re doing really well. But sometimes you get it really, really wrong. Permit me to illustrate. William B Riley conceived the idea of a body to advance Christian Fundamentalist ideas. The body that emerged from this idea was called World's Christian Fundamentals Association – the WCFA. In 1922 the movement lobbied to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools. It threw its weight behind what was to become the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. When that trial was over, the crusade against teaching evolution in schools continued with some successes and some failures – and some massive humiliating missteps. Edward Larson, in his book Summer for the Gods wrote: By the thirties, [Riley] warned of an "international Jewish-Bolshevik-Darwinist conspiracy" to promote evolutionism in the classroom, and praised Adolph Hitler's effort to foil such conspiracies in Germany. Riley was backing the wrong horse there, in so many ways. Even Hitler would have been surprised, and perhaps furious, at what had been said about him on so many levels. I’ll talk about that in a later programme. Tag words: Christian Fundamentalist; William B Riley; World's Christian Fundamentals Association; WCFA; Scopes Monkey Trial; Edward J Larson; Summer for the Gods; Adolf Hitler; William Jennings Bryan; Darwinism; the Commoner; Theory of Evolution; Neo-Darwinism; Alfred Russel Wallace; Overruling Intelligence; Governor Austin Peay; , John W Butler; Butler bill;

    27 min
  5. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 35. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – When Science is Just Good Storytelling. Part 35

    May 4

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 35. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – When Science is Just Good Storytelling. Part 35

    William Jennings Bryan challenged evolution for what he saw as the lack of evidence to show that man evolved from lower animal forms. His chief scientific opponent, well I’ll let Edward J Larson tell you about that from his book on the Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods: At the time, the popular debate over the status of evolution as science centered largely on the interpretation of fossils. Various types of scientific evidence supported the theory, but short of actually observing the development of new kinds of plants or animals, intermediate fossils linking related species offered the most persuasive "proof" of evolution. . . . . Bryan's chief adversary in the creation — evolution controversy from the scientific viewpoint, American Museum of Natural History president Henry Fairfield Osborn, …. "the very recent discovery of Tertiary man constitutes
the most convincing answer to Mr. Bryan's call for more evidence." Tracing humanity's family tree, Osborn added, "Nearer to us is the Piltdown man, found [in] England; still nearer in geologic time is the Heidelberg man, found on the Neckar River; still nearer is the Neanderthal man, whom we know all about. This chain of human
ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth." Explaining the fossil record for us are the scientists called paleoanthropologists. How much reliance should we put on the fact they’re telling us that man descended from the apes as proven by the fossil record? Tag words: William Jennings Bryan; the Commoner; Edward J Larson; Scopes Monkey Trial; Monkey Trial; Summer for the Gods; Jonathon Wells; Icons of Evolution; paleoanthropology; Piltdown man; Heidelberg man; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; Origin of Species; Nelson QScience; Pam Borger; Great War; World War I; Vernon Kellogg; Richard Weikart; Darwinian Racism; Ernst Haeckel; Friedrich Nietzsche; James H Leuba; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Edward Larsen; Larry Witham; Richard Dawkins; New Atheists; Christianity; John Scopes;

    29 min
  6. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 34. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Survival of the Fittest.

    Apr 27

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 34. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Survival of the Fittest.

    It was the rise of mass public education that was going to make inevitable the clash between Darwin’s materialistic Theory of Evolution (excluding God from the role of the creator of all life, and especially human life) and the Christian religion in America, in that rather large courtroom in Dayton Tennessee in July 1925. Darwin’s materialistic explanation of how life evolved left, and was not intended by him, to leave room for God, no matter how hard some good Christians tried to say that it did. Darwin, the god of evolution deliberately left no room for the God of the Bible in his story. Edward Larson made this clear in his book devoted solely to the Scopes Monkey Trial, The Summer for the Gods. He wrote: Darwinian concepts in public secondary education touched more families, and more fundamentalists, as the new century unfolded. Relatively few American teenagers attended high school during the nineteenth century, and nearly none did so in the rural South, where such schools rarely existed and local authorities did not compel student attendance. The situation changed dramatically after the turn of the century. Census figures tell the story. The number of pupils enrolled in American high schools lept from about 200,000 in 1890, when the federal government began collecting these figures, to nearly two million in 1920. Tennessee followed this national trend, with its high school population rising from less than 10,000 in 1910 to more than 50,000 at the time of the Scopes trial in 1925. This increase resulted in part from tougher Progressive-era school attendance laws that forced more teenagers to go to school, and followed also from greater access to secondary education, as the number of public high schools increased dramatically during the early part of the century. Commenting on this trend with respect to Tennessee, Governor Austin Peay — who signed the state's antievolution bill into law — boasted in his 1925 inaugural address, "High schools have sprung up throughout the state which are the pride of their communities." This was certainly true for Dayton, site of that year's Scopes trial, which opened its first public high school in 1906. These new schools inevitably included Darwinian concepts in their biological classes, in line with modern developments in American scientific thought. It was this in particular that drove William Jennings Bryan, the well respected hero of the left, but a very devout and leading Christian fundamentalist, to take the lead in the charge to keep evolution that preached that man had evolved from the ape, rather than being created by God, out of the science that children were being taught in schools. Tag words: Darwin; Theory of Evolution; God; Christians; Edward Larson; The Summer for the Gods; public secondary education; Scopes; Governor Austin Peay; High schools; William Jennings Bryan; Nietzsche; God is dead; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Alfred Russel Wallace; Overruling Intelligence; Stephen Meyer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; DNA; Robert Green Ingersoll; atheist; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; The Origin of Species; Sir Julian Huxley; Douglas Futuyma; Big Bang Theory; Genesis; Georges Lemaitre; Arno Penzias; Robert Wilson; survival-of-the-fittest; Eugenics; Billy Sunday; Scopes Monkey Trial; JW Tutt; Kettlewell; Michael Majerus; Jerry Coyne; Icons of Evolution; NELSON QSCIENCE Biology Units 3 & 4;

    30 min
  7. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 33. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Evolution or Christianity on Trial - The Trial of the Century.

    Apr 20

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 33. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Evolution or Christianity on Trial - The Trial of the Century.

    What many atheists call the war of religion against science, most relevantly against the Theory of Evolution, moved from being a debate in the public square, in churches and elsewhere and moved into the courtroom in Tennessee in 1925. Maybe now a decisive answer from this Court, or some superior court following an appeal, would lay the issue of whether evolution was true or not to rest once and for all.  This incredibly important trial was heard in a most unlikely place for the most unlikely reason and that court was not the Supreme Court of the United States but the court in the small town of Dayton Tennessee.  It was an outright case of religion versus science. The case is popularly known as the Monkey Trial or the Scopes Monkey Trial, if you want to include the name of the man who was chosen, in the most off-handed way, to be the defender of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution against the explanation for the creation of humans given in Chapters 1 and 2 of the Book of Genesis in the Bible. What few people know is that this case involved a murder as well. In the course of explaining what happened in this case, and why it is still so relevant today, I’m going to reveal the secret murder that was involved in the hearing of this case. Tag words: Atheists; Theory of Evolution; Dayton Tennessee; Monkey Trial; Scopes Monkey Trial; Charles Darwin; Genesis; Bible; Butler Act; Fundamentalists; Edward Larson; Summer for the Gods; Clarence Darrow; American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU; Christianity; Quakers; National Civil Liberties Bureau; American Union Against Militarism; AUAM; Roger Baldwin; Bolsheviks; Charles Linville; Teachers Union of New York City; George W Hunter; Nicholas Murray Butler; Princeton president John Greer Hibben; Yale president James Rowland Angell; Tennessee Evolution Case Fund advisory committee; Charles W. Eliot; David Starr; George Bernard Shaw; Arthur Keith; Albert Einstein; Henry Fairfield Osborn; J McKeen Cattell; Charles B. Davenport; Bryan; William Jennings Bryan; American Association for the Advancement of Science; AAAS; Princeton biologist Edwin G. Conklin; Maynard Shipley; Science League of America; Watson Davis; Hunter's Civic Biology; Eugenics; Garfield Hay; Reichstag;

    34 min
  8. CYKIAE Season 15 Part 32. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Universe . . . no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

    Apr 13

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 32. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Universe . . . no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

    In one of his many books, River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins wrote: The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. That isn’t how I see the world, the universe. Perhaps I could attempt to understand Richard Dawkins statement by imagining that he’s speaking of some other universe not our own. One of the infinite number of multiverses that some scientists, particularly materialist scientists, now advocate for. Tag words: Multiverse; River Out of Eden; Richard Dawkins; Paul Halper; The Allure of the Multiverse; William James; Michael Moorcock; MWI; Many Worlds Interpretation; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; Stephen Meyer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; Charles Darwin; Charles Sanders Peirce; God; Ockham's razor; substantial forms; Stephen Jay Gould; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Alister McGrath; The Twilight of Atheism; Andrew Dickson White; History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom;

    26 min
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Paul spent 38 yrs as a partner of a boutique commercial litigation firm in the Sydney, Australia, CBD. He frequently appeared before the NSW Supreme Court & the Federal Court of Australia, inc having a major flaw in the Corporations Act amended by the Australian parliament. Retired, his forensic skills are now turned to the major issues in our society. Exposing the errors, or worse still, lies in behind beliefs commonly held, even taught to our children, that are seriously and dangerously wrong. The Truth is always quiet. It is lies that are loud. CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy).

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