Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor K. F. Mather, of the Department of Geology, will introduce the speaker. Professor Mather was called as a witness by Mr. Darrow in his defense of John Thomas Scopes in the evolution trial in Tennessee, but his testimony was not allowed.
Professor K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology will debate the Reverend Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, on the general subject "Evolution", on the evenings of May 13 and 14, at Dr. Straton's church. Professor Mather was the chief defense witness in the Scopes...
The debates are to be "friendly discussions," it was announced. They are the outgrowth of a meeting of Professor Mather and Dr. Stratton in Cambridge last fall in the Phillips Brooks House when they discussed the question, "Resolved, That the theory of evolution is incompatible with the Christian religion." The...
The debate in New York will be without judges or voting by the audience. The subjects successively will be "Is Evolution True?" and "Is Evolution Anti-Christian?" It is expected the debates will be broadcast. President Hibben of Princeton University, has been invited to serve as chairman of both of...
Writing criticism for the Chicago Post he called for an American Lucretius to transform the new miracles of science into a new religion. He moved Athens to Iowa, in his imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by...