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Evolution Theory(Los Angeles: Modern Heretic, 1906), 9; Price to Martin Gardner,
May 13, 1952, courtesy of Martin Gardner.
- George McCready Price,The New Geology(Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific
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45.Science, March 5, 1926, 259; Price to Molleurus Couperus, November, 1946,
courtesy of the late Molleurus Couperus. On Price’s reputation, see also Martin Gard-
ner,Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science(New York: Dover Publications, 1957), - For a typically negative review by a prominent geologist, see Charles Schuchert,
Review ofThe New Geology, by George McCready Price,Science, May 30, 1924, 486–
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tory of the Flood Theory,”Signs of the Times61 (October 30, 1934): 15; J. C. Whitcomb
to D. J. Whitney, August 31, 1957, Whitcomb Papers, courtesy of John C. Whitcomb Jr.;
Roy M. Allen, Letter to the Editor,Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation17 (June
1965): 62. Price’s reaction toThe Genesis Floodappeared in an undated brochure ad-
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vival of the late twentieth century, see Numbers,The Creationists. - Martin Gardner,The Flight of Peter Fromm(Los Altos, Calif.: William Kauf-
mann, 1973), esp. 48–51. On Gardner’s own brand of theism, seeThe Whys of a Philo-
sophical Scrivener(New York: Quill, 1983). The Quaker animal ecologist Warder Clyde
Allee found his faith challenged in a course on evolution at the University of Chicago;
see Gregg Mitman,The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social
Thought, 1900–1950(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 52–53. - Accepting the geological timescale, or a piece of it, was only the beginning
of my loss of faith; for the rest of the story, see Jonathan M. Butler, “The Historian as
Heretic,” inProphetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins of Seventh-day Advent-
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1992), xxv–lxviii. - J. Frank Cassel, “Evolution of Evangelical Thinking on Evolution,”Journal of
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the Editor, ibid. 14 (September 1963): 100; Henry M. Morris,The Twilight of Evolution
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1963), 93. One of the most poignant cases
of conflict with evolution was that of the Missouri Lutheran Alfred H. Meyer; see
Numbers,The Creationists, 274–275. - Richards,Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories, 409–450. Rich-
ard Dawkins,The Blind Watchmaker(New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), 6, has famously
thanked Darwin for making “it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” - Deborah Jordan Brooks, “Substantial Numbers of Americans Continue to
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