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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, Creation and Evolution in the Early American Scientific Affiliation is the tenth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth-Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume comprises of original primary sources from the American Science Affiliation, a group formed following an invitation from the president of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, in answer to the perceived need for an academic society for American Evangelical Scientists to explicate the relationship between science and faith. The society confronted the debate between creation and evolution head-on, leaving a paper trail documenting their thoughts and struggles. This diverse and expansive collection includes 53 selections that appeared during the organisation's first two decades and focuses on the encounter between science and American evangelicalism in the twentieth century, in particular the debates surrounding the ever-increasing preference for evolutionary theory. The collection will be of especial interest to natural historians, and theologians as well as academics of philosophy, and history.
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
1. The Story of the American Scientific Affiliation / American Scientific Affiliation
2. Introduction, Preface and Chapter One from Science to Souls / Peter W. Stoner
3. Geology and the Bible / Edwin K. Gedney
4. Biology and Creation / William J. Tinkle and Walter E. Lammerts
5. Astronomy and the First Chapter of Genesis / Peter W. Stoner
6. A Symposium on "The Age of the Earth" / American Scientific Affiliation
7. Creation and Evolution / Russell L. Mixter
8. The Eye as an Optical Instrument / Frank Allen
9. The Science of Heredity and the Source of Species (includes discussion) / Russell L. Mixter
10. The Scientifico-Logical Structure of the Theory of Evolution (includes discussion) / Bernard Ramm
11. Some Presuppositions in Evolutionary Thinking (includes discussion) / E.Y. Monsma
12. Biology and Christian Fundamentals / Russell L. Mixter
13. Deluge Geology / J. Laurence Kulp
14. Comment on the "Deluge Geology" / Henry Morris
15. The Plan in the First Chapter of Genesis / R.T. Fulwood
16. Why God Called His Creation Good (includes discussion) / William J. Tinkle
17. The Palaeontology of the Horse (includes discussion) / Cordelia Erdman
18. Methods of Dating the Earth and the Universe / Delbert Eggenberger
19. The American Scientific Affiliation – The First Decade / F. Alton Everest
20. Biblical Chronology and Genesis 1:1-3 (includes discussion) / G. Douglas Young
21. Creation Days / J. Oliver Buswell, Jr.
22. The "Kind of Genesis and the Species" of Biology / Wilbur L. Bullock
23. The Evaluation of Radioactive Evidence on the Age of the Earth / Roy M. Allen
24. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology (includes discussion) / Cordelia Erdman
25. Creation in Terms of Modern Concepts of Genetics and Physics / Walter E. Lammerts and John C. Sinclair
26. A Criticism of the A.S.A. Monograph on "Creation and Evolution" / John H. McClendon
27. Reply to Criticism of "Creation and Evolution" / Russell L. Mixter
28. The Reconstruction or Cataclysmic Theory / Peter W. Stoner
29. Response to Mixter Regarding A.S.A. Monograph on "Creation and Evolution" / John H. McClendon
30. The Impact of Geological Dating upon the Interpretation of Biblical Chronology / Herbert Feely
31. Creation / John C. Sinclair
32. The Formation of Living Organisms from Non-Living Systems / Walter R. Hearn
33. An Evaluation of the Fossil Record / Russell L. Mixter
34. Comments on Dr. Mixter’s Paper / Wilbur L. Bullock
35. The Evolution of Evangelical Thinking on Evolution / J. Frank Cassel
36. A Critique of Evolution / W.R. Thompson
37. Species Concepts and Definitions / J. Frank Cassel
38. The Genesis Kinds in Our Modern World / Frank L. Marsh
39. Some Implications of Evolution for A.S.A. / Irving A. Cowperthwaite
40. The Origin of Man and the Bible / J. Frank Cassel
41. Letter / H. Harold Hartzler
42. Neutron-Induced Variation of Roses / Walter E. Lammerts
43. Creation, a Finished Work / William J. Tinkle
44. Origin of Life / Walter R. Hearn
45. Comments on the Origin of Species / J. Frank Cassel
46. Christian Thought Today – On Origin of Species / J. Frank Cassel
47. The Origin of Man, and the Bio-cultural Gap / James O. Buswell, III
48. Geology and the Great Flood / William F. Tanner
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