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To understand the continued persistence of anti-evolutionism in American cultural history requires an understanding of its history. However, few libraries have collected more than the occasional book or pamphlet on creationism and early creationist periodicals are almost impossible to find. This collection makes available works on creationism by such stalwarts as Arthur I. Brown, William Bell Riley, Harry Rimmer, Byron C. Nelson, George McCready Price, Harold W. Clark and Frank Lewis Marsh. The volumes in this series each contain a preface by science historian Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design that puts these writings into context.
Originally published in 1995 this is the fifth volume in the series Creationism in 20th Century America. It re-publishes After Its Kind – a critique on theories of biological evolution and a defence of the biblical account of creation which Nelson wrote when he was a Pastor in New Jersey where he also attended classes in genetics and zoology at Rutgers University. His 1931 volume The Deluge Story in Stone: A History of the Flood Theory of Geology, also reprinted here was continuously in print until the 1960s. As his scientific and theological correspondence expanded in the wake of his publications, Nelson became further involved in the 'evolution debates'. During the late 1930s, his writings concentrated on early man and the glacial phenomena he saw all about him in Wisconsin and he compiled the materials he thought necessary to relate Scripture to the evidence of human antiquity.
Series and volume introductions
1. After Its Kind: The First and Last Word on Evolution
2. The Deluge Story in Stone: A History of the Flood Theory of Geology
3. Before Abraham: Prehistoric Man in Biblical Light
4. A Catechism on Evolution
Paul A. Nelson is Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Centre for Science and Culture, USA.
