Creationism - National Center for Science Education
Creationism - National Center for Science Education Creationism - National Center for Science Education
The dissertation of Thomas Allen McIver is approved. Robert Jay Russell Douglass Price-Williams B.J. Williams Robert S. Westman Philip L. Newman, Committee Chair University of California, Los Angeles 1989 To my parents
INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. FUNDAMENTALISM AND SCIENCE Pre-Millennialism Protestant Scholasticism Common Sense Philosophy The Baconian-Newtonian Ideal of Science Fact versus Theory Bible-Science Propositional Nature of the Bible Literalism versus Inerrancy Perspicuity of the Bible Creationism as a Key Tenet of Fundamentalist Belief 2. ORIGINS OF MODERN “SCIENTIFIC” CREATIONISM: 1900-1960 George McCready Price W.B. Riley and Harry Rimmer Other Early Creationists Early Debates The Lull: 1940s-1950s Early Creationist Organizations 3. THE MODERN CREATION-SCIENCE MOVEMENT Henry Morris; The American Scientific Affiliation Whitcomb and Morris’s Genesis Flood The Creation Research Society The Bible-Science Association The California Textbook Disputes: 1969-1972 The Creation-Science Research Center The Geoscience Research Institute The Institute for Creation Research Other Active Creationist Groups and Leaders 4. THEORETICAL ISSUES: SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND MORALITY Attitudes Towards the Relationship of Christianity and Science Bible-Science Harmonizations Prior to the 1920s Fundamentalist Rejection of Compromise Harmonizations Nomothetic Creation and Final vs. Secondary Causation Presuppositions Fundamentalist Dichotomies Evolution as Man’s Escape from God Chance versus Purpose and Design Morality
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The dissertation of Thomas Allen McIver is approved.<br />
Robert Jay Russell<br />
Douglass Price-Williams<br />
B.J. Williams<br />
Robert S. Westman<br />
Philip L. Newman, Committee Chair<br />
University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Los Angeles<br />
1989<br />
To my parents
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