Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Unitarian Potter defeated Baptist Straton in the debate on the Virgin Birth. He has now won two out of three debates and has two to go. Both debaters referred to the biology of parthenogenesis. But the Baptist's best argument seemed to be that Presidents Wilson and Harding believed with him, to which the Unitarian countered that Presidents Taft and Eliot believed with...
...reply to William T. Howe's defense of Dr. Straton's address, lauding the supernatural and miraculous, and condemning the material and analytic point of view of Harvard students toward religion,--it might be well observed that any doctrine or religion which betrays muddled thinking of the type that asserts that America entered the World War purely because an omnipotent God put in our hearts a spirit of altruism to defend Europe from the clutches of a nation which had turned its heart against this same omniponent God,--it may be well observed that such religion scarcely merits serious consideration...
...Boston newspapers attribute rather rough treatment to Dr. Straton at the hands of the Harvard students, but it is a question whether this treatment was any more than was deserved by one who would insult the intelligence of college men by skimming the froth off a serious religious discussion and presenting a mass of sensational statements, unsupported by reason of fact.--expecting students to capitulate under bombastic oratory. It is significant that the sympathies of the audience were openly in agreement with the man who accused Dr. Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present...
...acceptance of Dr. Straton's theology demands or develops such muddled thinking and evasiveness, if the belief in the supernatural and miraculous corrupts man's thinking capacity to such a degree, then the Fundamentalist religion stands in violent antipathy to the very principles of college training, and it is clear that the student will have to choose between education and Fundamentalist religion. G. SIDNEY STANTON...
Whatever may have been their attitude toward the fallibility of the Bible and the adequacy of evolution to account for the origin of man, those present at Dr. Straton's recent address could hardly fail to see the significance of that meeting. There was evident an emotional intensity which showed that the students realized the importance of religious problems, but their questions proved their utter helplessness to deal with such problems. Isn't it rather illogical for a student, who in other subjects insists that those to whom he listens shall be of recognized authority, to settle his own attitude...