Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evolutionists will occupy a defensive position tonight, when the Reverend John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of New York city, will uphold Fundamentalism and one literal interpretation of the biblical story of the Creation of Man, in his lecture on "The Battle Over the Bible," which he will deliver at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House. Mr. R. H. Schacht of Brookline will preside. The meeting is open only to members of the University...
...Creation Week may Have Been Eons...
...conclude that the earth is 100,000,000 or 100,000,000,000 years old; the conclusion does not affect the Bible in the slightest degree. Or, if one is worried over the progressive appearance of land, plants, animals, and man on the successive six days of a "Creation Week," there is well-known Biblical support for the scientists' contention that eons rather than hours elapsed while these things were taking place...
First, he saw the beauty of the world, as in imbecile might see it, with the eyes of innocence. To understand him it is unnecessary to understand anything that happened before him except the creation of man. Second, he expressed what he saw with a graphic accent. His sculptures are stone syllables of a speech men suddenly realize that they know...
Studying, teaching, Dr. Fosdick became more convinced as years passed that intellectual objections to Christianity were without foundation. Jesus never said he was born of a virgin. Jesus may have believed the Biblical account of creation, but he never said that Genesis was inerrant. Jesus promised resurrection but he never guaranteed that a man with blue eyes on earth would have the same blue eyes in heaven. In short, Dr. Fosdick found nothing in the religion of Jesus which is not as worthy of belief today as it was in Jesus' time...