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science arguments. As before, his primary argument is that while Christianity elevates humanity, evolution “unquestionably has degrading, demoralizing, brutalizing influences.” Evolution “stands as a denial of every essential Christian belief.” “The severest indictment that must be brought against the God-dishonoring theory of evolution is that it denies that there was a fall; therefore there is no need of the plan of redemption or of the Savior (1925:16). The rivalry between Christianity and Darwinism, he declares, “is at the bottom of all human affairs.” Leander Keyser, another Missouri Synod Lutheran, wrote a strongly antievolutionist book The Problem of Origins (1925) (“Whence Came the Universe? Whence Came Life and Species? Whence Came Man? A Frank Discussion of the Doctrines of Evolution and Creation”). Clarence Benson wrote creationist articles for Moody Monthly, many of which he incorporated into his book The Earth—The Theatre of the Universe: And a Scientific and Scriptural Study of the Earth’s Place and Purpose in the Divine Program (1938 (1929]), and a companion volume, Immensity: God’s Greatness Seen in Creation (1937), with a foreword by Higley. A later book, The Greatness and Grace of God (1953), contains “Conclusive Evidence that Refutes Evolution: arranged to be used as a textbook in Christian Evidences.” In 1938, after the demise of the Religion and Science Association, the Society for the Study of Creation, the Deluge, and Related Sciences was founded under the leadership of Seventh-day Adventist Ben F. Allen. Commonly known as the Creation- Deluge Society, this creationist organization held meetings in Los Angeles and published the Bulletin of Deluge Geology and Related Sciences. George McCready Price was active in the Society, which was largely inspired by his Flood Geology, as was Cyril Courville, who served as president and wrote for the Bulletin. In 1945 Ben Allen was deposed by an old-earth faction, and the Creation-Deluge Society was dissolved. Reorganized under a new name, the new society faded into oblivion within a few years. Allen denounced the old-earthers who took over the society in a paper quoted by Morris (1984:125-6) “The Original Society Illegally Supplanted and All Scriptural Standards Abandoned.” The Christian Evidence League of Malverne, New York published booklets such as Whitney’s 1946 Case for Creation series and several pamphlets and books by Price (1949, 1956, 1971) and other creationists. It seems to have faded from sight at about the time that ICR was being founded (1972). There is a curious lack of continuity between these older groups and the new generation of creationists, however, despite a continuity of many creationist ideas and theories. I was in the ICR Library one day when an ICR graduate student from Malverne, New York discovered, to his evident surprise, that there had been a creationist organization in his own home town. The Evolution Protest Movement in England has published hundreds of antievolutionist pamphlets, plus a few books, since it was founded by Bernard Acworth in 1932. The first president of the EPM was Sir John Fleming, the famous University of London physicist and electrical engineer. Fleming, who invented the electron tube, which made radio broadcast possible, wrote Evolution or Creation? in 1933. Evolution is so blatantly opposed to the Bible, he wrote, that it must be examined very critically; if creationism was false then the rest of the Bible must be false also.
Fleming’s Modern Anthropology versus Biblical Statements on Human Origin was published by the Victoria Institute in 1935. The Victoria Institute, also called the Philosophical Society, was founded in 1865, and has published many creationist articles in its Transactions and journal. Fleming served as its president before the founding of the EPM. Sir Charles Marston, an archeologist who wrote The Bible Is True (1938 [1934]) about his digs at Jericho with Garstang, succeeded Fleming as EPM president. Douglas Dewar was the next president. A.G. Tilney, a linguist and schoolmaster, wrote over a hundred EPM pamphlets, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. C.E.A. Turner, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry and science education, also wrote several EPM pamphlets, including A Jubilee of Witness for Creation Against Evolution (1982), an account of fifty years of the Evolution Protest Movement. An American branch of the EPM was established in the 1950s, under the leadership of James D. Bales. Bales, a professor at Harding College, Arkansas, has a Ph.D. from the University of California, and is the author of The Genesis Account and a Scientific Test (1975) and other creationist booklets. As American EPM Secretary, he wrote the Introduction to Dewar’s The Transformist Illusion, published in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1957.
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Fleming’s Modern Anthropology versus Biblical Statements on Human Origin<br />
was published by the Victoria Institute in 1935. The Victoria Institute, also called the<br />
Philosophical Society, was founded in 1865, and has published many creationist articles<br />
in its Transactions and journal. Fleming served as its president be<strong>for</strong>e the founding of the<br />
EPM. Sir Charles Marston, an archeologist who wrote The Bible Is True (1938 [1934])<br />
about his digs at Jericho with Garstang, succeeded Fleming as EPM president. Douglas<br />
Dewar was the next president.<br />
A.G. Tilney, a linguist and schoolmaster, wrote over a hundred EPM pamphlets,<br />
mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. C.E.A. Turner, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry and science<br />
education, also wrote several EPM pamphlets, including A Jubilee of Witness <strong>for</strong><br />
Creation Against Evolution (1982), an account of fifty years of the Evolution Protest<br />
Movement.<br />
An American branch of the EPM was established in the 1950s, under the<br />
leadership of James D. Bales. Bales, a professor at Harding College, Arkansas, has a<br />
Ph.D. from the University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, and is the author of The Genesis Account and a<br />
Scientific Test (1975) and other creationist booklets. As American EPM Secretary, he<br />
wrote the Introduction to Dewar’s The Trans<strong>for</strong>mist Illusion, published in Murfreesboro,<br />
Tennessee in 1957.
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