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).
CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)
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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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June 15, 2026
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 41. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Freedom of Speech.
<p>Darrow … had grand matters to place before the country — issues of academic liberty, free thought, and scientific inquiry. He hoped, by calling scientists to the stand, to educate the public and alert them to the threat posed by rural zealots with their silly lockstep creed. And the defense was aided by public expectations. The country was looking forward to a spectacular debate on Monkeys and Man, led by the titans Darrow and Bryan.</p><p>So wrote John Farrell in his biography, Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned. Was that add on just a clever title or did it conceal more truth about the Scopes Monkey Trial than Farrell realised?</p><p>Bryan may have thought that he was on the side of God, but Darrow knew that he was on higher moral ground, he was defending science and the right of the evolutionary scientists to tell the truth that man was descended from the apes and that Bryan’s God was dead. Isn’t that what the Darrow character was saying in the movie Inherit the Wind in that passage I opened the last programme with - for this insight and for this knowledge we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.</p><p>Why? Because God was dead. Darrow could unembarrassedly say to William Jennings Bryan: I am holier than thou. Or could he?</p><p>Tag words: Clarence Darrow; John Farrell; Scopes Monkey Trial; William Jennings Bryan; God; Genesis; American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU; Edward J Larson; Summer for the Gods; Dudley Field Malone; John Randolph Neal; Arthur Garfield Hays; Henry Linville; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; Academic freedom; Harry F Ward; American Association of University Professors; Christianity; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Charles Darwin; Richard Dawkins; River Out of Eden; The Origin of Species; Icons of Evolution; The Descent of Man; Freedom of speech;</p>
June 8, 2026
CYKIAE Season 15 Part 40. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Atheists Who Were Holier Than Thou.
<p>Darwin took us forward to a hilltop from where we could look back and see the way from which we came. But for this insight and for this knowledge we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis</p><p>Thus sprake Henry Drummond, (Spencer Tracy) who played the fictional role of the real life Clarence Darrow in the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind which was based, ever so loosely on the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton Tennessee in 1926. So loosely that the play and the screenplay truly deserve the name fiction.</p><p>This trial was backed to the hilt by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, which was determined to uphold academic freedom. Freedom of thought. Or was it something else that they were upholding?</p><p>Anyway don’t listen to me, listen to Henry Drummond:</p><p>Tag words: Charles Darwin;. Henry Drummond; Spencer Tracy; Clarence Darrow; Inherit the Wind; Scopes Monkey Trial; Dayton Tennessee; American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU; Theory of Evolution; Professor John Randolph Neal; Edward J Larson; Summer for the Gods; American Association of University Professors; AAUP; William Jennings Bryan; Darwinism; University of Tennessee; Harcourt A. Morgan; professor J W Sprowls; Fundamentalism; freedom of teaching; ALCU; American Civil Liberties Union; Henry Linville; professor John Dewey; Harry F. Ward; Felix Frankfurter; emeritus David Starr Jordan; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Roger Baldwin; George W Rappleyea;</p>
June 1, 2026
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
<p>William Jennings Bryan was pitched against Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial – and it wasn’t a fair fight.</p><p>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:</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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;</p>
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