Christian Literature as Affected by Evolutionary Theory since 1859

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Christian Literature as Affected by Evolutionary Theory since 1859

This is a class paper written by John Ellingson. This Newsletter
assisted him in finding sources. 1859 is the date when Darwin
published his "Origin of the Species". The material is divided
into that which rejects evolution, that which reconciles to it,
and that which accepts it.

These works reject evolution:

Bettex - "The Six Days of Creation" (1924)
Wm. Bryan - "In His Image" (1922)
Francis Brunner - "The Evolutionary Theory ... Unsupported ..." (1900)
Jessie W. Gibbs - "Evolutionary and Christianity" (1930)
Theo. Graebner - "Evolution: An Investigation and a Criticism" (1922)
John Klotz - "Genes, Genesis and Evolution" (1955)
Meldau - "Why We Believe in Creation, Not in Evolution" (1955)
Henry Morris - "The Twilight of Evolution" (1963)
Byron C. Nelson - "After Its Kind" (1952)
George McCready Price - "The New Geology" (1913)
A.M. Rehwinkel - "The Flood" (1951)
B.N. Watts - "The Incomparable Book" (1946)
Whitcomb and Morris - "The Genesis Flood" (1961)
Zimmerman - "Darwin, Evolution and Creation" (1959)

Ellingson lists the following works as attempting
to reconcile Christianity with evolution:

Barth - "Dogmatics in Outline" (1959)
Beecher - "Evolution and Religion" (1885)
Bixby - "The Crisis in Morals" (1891)
Derlodot - "Darwinism and Catholic Thought" (1922)
Dwight - "Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist" (1912)
Goldsmith - "Evolution or Christianity, God or Darwin" (1924)
Grebstein - "Monkey Trial" (1960)
Hodge - "What is Darwinism?" (1874)
Lever - "Creation and Evolution"
McCosh - "The Religious Aspect of Evolution" (1888)
Mixter - "Evolution and Christian Thought Today" (1959)
Mivart - "On the Genesis of the Species" (1871)
Nogar - "The Wisdom of Evolution" (1963)
0'Brian - "Evolution and Religion" (1932)
Richardson - "The Bible in an Age of Science" (1961)
Woodrow - "Evolution" (1884)
Wright - "Some Analogies Between Calvinism and Darwinism" (1880)
Zahm - "Evolution and Dogma" (1896)

The following are listed by Ellingson as accepting evolution:

Abbott - "The Evolution of Christianity (1892)
DeChardin - "The Divine Millieu" (1960)
DeChardin - "The Phenomenon of Man" (1959)
Darrow - "Through Science to God" (1925)
Drummond - "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" (1884)
DuNouy - "Human Destiny" (1947)
Fiske - "Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy" (1874)
Frothingham - "Religion of Humanity" (1872)
Gray - "Natural Science and Religion" (1880)
Hauret - "Beginnings: Genesis and Modern Science" (1955)
Johnson - "What is Reality?" (1891)
Lack - "Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief,
the Unresolved Conflict"(1957)
Messenger - "Theology and Evolution" (1949)
Munger - "The Freedom of Faith" (1904)
Powell - "Religion as a Factor in Human Evolution" (1895)
Savage - "Evolution and Religion" (1886)
Shailer - "Contributions of Science to Religion" (1924)
Smyth - "Old Faiths in New Light" (1879)
Storr - "Development and Divine Purpose" (1906)
White - "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology
in Christendom" (1897)

http://www.creationism.org/lang/LangBsa/Bsa1964_05.htm

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The problem with this kind of thing is that the fundies, bible literalists, godbots, whatever, scoop all of these sorts of things under the "Christian" umbrella as if they represent the thinking of everyone who calls himself or herself a Christian, when, in reality, they're reflective only of the fundie minority. Catholics long ago accommodated evolution, as did many congregations of mainstream protestants, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans. Baptists don't, but for the most part they're Sunday Christians and even in the Baptist universities they teach Evolution. They're pretty good at compartmentalizing their thinking.

In any event, these pseudo-scientific religious tracts are suffocating in their stupidity, pompousness and boredom. They're mostly a testament to the ineffable ignorance of godbots and bible bashers.