Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Student Questions: Talks to College Students (Boston: Houghton, Miffl in and Company,
1906), 52–53. For critical reaction to White’s work by contemporaries, see Glenn C.
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    (New York, Macmillan, 1924), 23 (the original was in italics), 35–36.

  2. Hodge, What Is Darwinism? 126; Anonymous, “What is ‘Science,’ and What the
    ‘Inductive Method[’],” Bible Student and Teacher 7 (1907): 107; and W. B. Riley, “Skepti-
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    Creationists: From Scientifi c Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded ed. (Cambridge,
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  3. Hodge, What Is Darwinism? 126–31; Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3
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  4. William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company,
    1922), 94; Alfred Fairhurst, Atheism in Our Universities (Cincinnati, OH: Standard Pub-
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  5. Numbers, The Creationists, 69–87; Judith V. Grabiner and Peter D. Miller,
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    Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford
    University Press, 2003), 28–92; Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History
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  6. Étienne Gilson, God and Philosophy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
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  7. The joint statement, along with a list of those who signed the document, is re-
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  8. E. G. Homrighausen, Christianity in America: A Crisis (New York: Abingdon
    Press, 1936), 80–81, 62. In my description of the neo- orthodox treatment of science
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    (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1966), 116–19; and Langdon Gilkey, Naming the
    Whirlwind: The Renewal of God- Language (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs- Merrill Company,
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    Science and Religion: New Perspectives on the Dialogue, ed. Ian G. Barbour (New York:
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    Religious Language (London: SCM Press, 1957), 11–18, 185–86, 26. Useful discussions

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