Creation-Evolution Debates

by Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume comprises eight debates from the early 1920s and 1930s between prominent evolutionists and creationists of the time. The original sources detail debates that took place either orally or in print, as well as active debates between creationists over the true meaning of Genesis I. The essays in this volume feature prominent discussions between the likes of Edwin Grant Conklin, Henry Fairfield Osbourne and William Jennings Bryan, John Roach Francis and Charles Francis Potter, George McCready Price and Joseph McCabe and William Bell Riley versus Charles Smith, amongst many others. The collection will be of especial interest to natural historians, and theologians as well as academics of philosophy, and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000027938
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/17/2021
Series:	Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	526
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ronald L. Numbers

Table of Contents

Series Introduction Volume Introduction 1. "God and Evolution" 2. "Evolution and Religion" 3. "Bryan and Evolution" 4. Evolution Versus Creation 5. Is Evolution True? 6. The San Francisco Debate on Evolution 7. Should Evolution be Taught in Tax Supported Schools? 8. A Debate 9. McPherson-Smith Debate 10. "Is Man a Modified Monkey?" Acknowledgements