Dealing with Darwin Place, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
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Dealing with DarwinPlace, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
…into the theological world like a plow into an
ant-hill … Those who were thus rudely awakened from their old comfort
and repose had swarmed forth angry and confused
Andrew Dickson White
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
If Uncle J. is to be read out of the Seminary, Dr. McCosh ought to be
driven out of the church, and all private members like myself ought
to withdraw without waiting for the expulsion which should follow belief
in evolution. If the brethren of the Mississippi Valley have so precarious
a hold upon their faith in God that they are afraid to have their sons
hear aught of modern scientific belief, by all means let them drive
Dr. Woodrow to the wall
Woodrow Wilson
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Tadpole Theology on Trial
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Old Plumer James Woodrow
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
It would be as plainly absurd to ask these questions as to inquire whether the doctrine is white or black, square or round, light or heavy. … These are qualities which do not belong to such subjects
James Woodrow
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The Lord formed man of the dust of the ground
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
The Lord formed man of the dust of the ground
Man was born of an ape by ordinary generation
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HERESY
mischievous
godlessness sensuality
Minds already degraded
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
The question which, in my judgment, is really before the Synod is in regard to the relation between Dr. Woodrow’s hypothesis and the Bible as our church interprets it: between the scientific view and our Bible – the Bible as it is to us
John Girardeau
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The Evolution hypothesis … is, beyond all question, atheistic … In this form evolution is confessedly irreconcilable with the Bible and our Christian Faith
George D. Armstrong
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I confess my inability to see the grounds of this objection … So far as I can see, the unity of the human race depends in no way upon the material of which God formed Adam or the changes through which he had previously caused that material to pass. It seems to me to depend … solely upon the descent of all men from our first parents Adam and Eve. If all men are Adam’s descendants, is there not a ‘perfect race unity’? And how is that unity involved in the question whether Adam’s body was created by an immediate or by a mediate act? What more than community of origin, descent from the same pair, can be needed to ‘preserve the perfect race unity,’ which we all believe to exist?
James Woodrow
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… betrays an entire ignorance of what is involved in the doctrine of descent with modification. The first principle of that doctrine is that the modification appears in a single individual and not in many
James Woodrow
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‘Pope’ Agassiz
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Josiah Nott
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
scientific error … political folly
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Human and pigeon breeds were all of a piece: prove that these extraordinary pigeons had all come from one ancestor, and the case would be so much easier for humans … It remained true that one of the best places to pick up contemporary chicken lore was a human-race book like Bachman’s
Adrian Desmond & James Moore
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rash, blundering synodical decrees
William Flinn
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Tadpole Theology on Trial
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Tadpole Theology on Trial
Prehistory of the Dispute
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
… not been able to determine, with all their collections and measurements of craniums and facial angles, the color of skin, the weight of brains … whether there be two, three, five or a dozen different species
Richard S. Gladney
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that shallow and fickle policy … in hastily adopting some
newly coined exposition … to suit some supposed exigency
of new scientific discovery
Robert Dabney
the most unbiased readiness to accept as truth whatever is proved
James Woodrow
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Fort Sumter
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
You must resist or you must practically surrender your
Bibles. You will have to ‘take sides’ for or against your God
Robert Dabney
… dangerous
James Woodrow
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Tadpole Theology on Trial
Prehistory of the Dispute
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Tadpole Theology on Trial
Prehistory of the Dispute
Towards a Deeper Archaeology
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Why else is it that Bushmen are poorer, shorter, uglier and feebler than Englishmen?
Providence … prevents that disastrous intermingling of types of organization, shading off in every direction into interminable confusions
Robert Dabney
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Yankee heresy … rank … fatal … deceptive … farcical and dishonest
Robert Lewis Dabney
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inexorable barrier of alien race, color, and natural character … a
dense ignorance of the rights and duties of citizenship … a general
moral grade so deplorably low as to permit their being driven or
bought like a herd of sheep … a parasitical servility and
dependency on nature … an obstinate set of false traditions
Robert Lewis Dabney
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curse of mixed blood … this poison of hybrid and corrupted blood
will be enough to complete the
destruction of the white States
Robert Lewis Dabney
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
This apparently is the destiny which our conquerors have in view. If indeed they can mix the blood of the heroes of Manassas with this vile stream from the fens of Africa, then they will never again have occasion to tremble before the righteous resistance of Virginian freemen; but will have a race supple and vile enough to fill that position of political subjection, which they desire to fix on the South
Robert Lewis Dabney
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Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause
Columbia, Woodrow and the Legacy of the Lost Cause