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Homiletic Review35 (1898): 392–393. See also Wright, “Editorial Note on Genesis and
Geology,”Bibliotheca Sacra54 (1897): 570–572; and Wright,Scientific Confirmations of
Old Testament History(Oberlin, Ohio: Bibliotheca Sacra, 1906), 368–386. On Guyot,
see Ronald L. Numbers,Creation by Natural Law: Laplace’s Nebular Hypothesis in
American Thought(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977), 91–100. The
Princeton theologian Charles Hodge also endorsed Guyot’s interpretation; see Ronald
L. Numbers, “Charles Hodge and the Beauties and Deformities of Science,” in
Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work, ed. John W. Stewart
and James H. Moorhead (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002), 77–
102.

35. [G. F. Wright], Review ofDarwinism and Other Essays, by John Fiske,Biblio-
    theca Sacra36 (1879), 784; [Wright], “Transcendental Science,”Independent41 (Octo-
    ber 3, 1889): 10. See also Wright, “Darwin on Herbert Spencer,”Bibliotheca Sacra 46
    (1889): 181–184.


36. G. Frederick Wright, “Present Aspects of the Questions Concerning the Ori-
    gin and Antiquity of the Human Race,”Protestant Episcopal Review11 (1898): 319–323;
    Wright, “The Revision of Geological Time,”Bibliotheca Sacra60 (1903): 580; Wright,
    “The Uncertainties of Science,”Advance43 (1902): 624–625.


37. George Frederick Wright, “The Passing of Evolution,”The Fundamentals
    (Chicago: Testimony Publishing Co., n.d.), 7: 5–20, emphasis added. For a fuller dis-
    cussion of Wright’s somewhat ambiguous views on the origin of humans, see Num-
    bers,The Creationists, 32–36.


38. Ellen G. White,Spiritual Gifts: Important Facts of Faith, in Connection with the
    History of Holy Men of Old(Battle Creek, Mich.: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing As-
    sociation, 1864), 77–79, 90–91. On White and Adventism, see Ronald L. Numbers,
    Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White(New York: Harper and Row, 1976).


39. G. M. Price to H. W. Clark, June 15, 1941, Price Papers, Adventist Heritage
    Center, Andrews University Library; Price,Genesis Vindicated(Washington: Review
    and Herald Publishing Association, 1941), 300. See also Price, “Some Early Experi-
    ences with Evolutionary Geology,”Bulletin of Deluge Geology1 (November 1941): 77–


40. This discussion of Price is taken from Numbers,The Creationists, 72–101.


41. Price, “Some Early Experiences,” 79–80; Price, “If I Were Twenty-One
    Again,”These Times69 (September 1, 1960): 22.


42. George E. McCready Price,Outlines of Modern Christianity and Modern Sci-
    ence(Oakland, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1902); Price to William Guthrie, August 26, 1904;
    Price to W. H. Thurston, August 28, 1904; Thurston to A. G. Daniells, January 19,
    1905; Guthrie to Daniells, January 23, 2905; all in RG 11 of the Archives of the Gen-
    eral Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland, hereinafter cited
    as SDA Archives. I am indebted to Bert Haloviak for bringing these and related docu-
    ments to my attention.


43. George E. Price to William Guthrie, December 28, 1904; A. G. Daniells to
    Mrs. G. E. Price, January 16, 1905; Daniells to C. H. Edwards, January 16, 1905; Dan-
    iells to Price, January 17 and 31, 1905; Price to Daniells, January 25 and March 19,
    1905; all in RG 11, SDA Archives.


44. George McCready Price, “I’d Have an Aim,”Advent Review and Sabbath Her-
    ald138 (February 16, 1961): 14–15; Price,Illogical Geology: The Weakest Point in the