User talk:StudyAndBeWise/TypesOfCreationists

This is a place to collect references and citations that document the various types of creationists and victorian naturalists as well as other evolutionary opponents (I.D.ers), and various examples.

Creationists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

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Bible Institute

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Religion

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Evangelist Billy Sunday

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Billy Sunday is discussed in Larson 2004, p. 199-200 He "was not a doctrinaire fundamentalist; Sunday characterized his views as 'pure Americanism'" [5] He preached in his February 1925 Memphis rvival: "I don't believe the old bastard theory of evolution....I believe I am just as God Almighty made me."[6] Quoting from the book: "Theodore Roosevelt once joined Sunday onstage and Woodrow Wilson invited him to the Whitehouse."[7] Quoting from the book: "Sunday opposed evolutionary theories of both human origins and religious understanding. The two blurred in his mind. Embracing developments in biblical higher criticism, many theologically liberal Christians accepted the so-called "modernist" interpretation of the Bible as a collection of accounts about God written over time by various authors, with earlier accounts typically offering more primitive concepts than later ones. Both religious modernism and the scientific theory of evolution denied the literal truth of Genesis, Sunday argued."[8] Sunday said (quoting from the book)"When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scolarship can go to hell."[9] Quoting from the book:

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Citations

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  1. ^ Larson 2004, p. 204
  2. ^ Larson 2004, p. 204-205
  3. ^ Larson 2004, p. 205
  4. ^ Larson 2004, p. 205
  5. ^ Larson 2004, p. 199-200
  6. ^ Larson 2004, p. 199
  7. ^ Larson 2004, p. 200
  8. ^ Larson 2004, p. 200
  9. ^ Larson 2004, p. 200
  10. ^ Wills 1925, p. 2
  11. ^ Larson 2004, p. 203
  12. ^ Larson 2004, p. 203-204

References

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  • Larson, Edward J.; Witham, Larry (1998), "Leading scientists still reject God" (PDF), Nature, Macmillan Publishers Ltd: 313 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link) Retrieved on 2007-01-14
  • Larson, Edward J. (2004), Evolution, Modern Library, ISBN 0-679-64288-9
  • Numbers, Ronald L. (1992), Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., p. 224, ISBN 0-679-40104-0
  • Wills, Ridley (1925-02-18), Church School Today Hotbed of Infidelity, Billy Sunday Charges, Commercial Appeal (Memphis) {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)