The Creation and Evolution of the ASA in Historical Context

Why was the ASA formed? In order that science teachers who are Christians could help ministers and evangelists who are dealing with scientific subjects and college students confronted with secular textbooks and instructors Conservative Protestants in the USA believed they were targets in a culture war involving science and the Bible

Cartoon by unknown artist, The King s Business (Dec 1927)

Copyrighted image removed: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/ posts/ap2501010165.jpg Clarence Darrow (left) and William Jennings Bryan at Scopes trial (1925), Associated Press image

Cartoon by E. J. Pace, Sunday School Times (June 1922)

Cartoon by E. J. Pace (c. 1922)

Cartoon by E. J. Pace (unknown date)

Cartoon by E. J. Pace, frontispiece from Bryan, Seven Questions in Dispute (1924) Evolution is the cause of [religious] modernism and the progressive elimination of the vital truths of the Bible Bryan s letter to Charles Trumbull (Jan 1924), Bryan Papers, Library of Congress There is no stopping place on this descent

Cartoon by E. J. Pace, Sunday School Times (July 1924)

Irwin Moon & Will Houghton, ca. 1940

Moody Sermons From Science

engineer F. Alton Everest, Oregon State University, 1950

L: astronomer Peter W. Stoner, Pasadena City College (ca. 1941) R: chemist Russell D. Sturgis, Ursinus College (ca. 1941)

L: biologist John P. van Haitsma, Calvin College (ca. 1954) R: chemist Irving Couperthwaite, Thompson Wire Co. (1947)

George McCready Price & Harry Rimmer

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The 1950s: an increasing federal role in During the Cold War, the federal government assumed a larger role in science education The National Science Foundation was established in 1950 partly to facilitate advances in science education science education

Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy (1986)

The first conference: Wheaton College, 1946

Marie Fetzer, Cordelia Erdman & Alta Schrock, Goshen College, 1950

The first conference: Wheaton College, 1946 A conference highlight: showing the Moody film, God of Creation, which had been Reviewed by the American Scientific Affiliation. https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=mrrfxc6v 2aY&feature=youtu.be

Taylor University, 1947

Cartoon by U. S. Abell, Moody Monthly, June 1947

Modern Science and Christian Faith, edited by Alton Everest (1948) To the memory of WILL H. HOUGHTON whose Christian stature is measured by many lengthened shadows, of which the American Scientific Affiliation is one.

The ASA starts publishing its own Journal in 1949 The purpose of the A.S.A. Bulletin is manifold. It is intended primarily for the benefit of the A.S.A. members, and interested friends, and it is hoped that it will be instrumental in helping the organization achieve its primary purpose of witnessing to the truth of the Scriptures and elucidating the relationship of both the ideology and fruits of science thereto. Columbia chemist Marion D. Barnes (editor)

BIOLA, 1949

The influence of Larry Kulp Goshen College, 1950 J. Lawrence Kulp of Columbia was a major research scientist who pioneered radiocarbon dating He heavily influenced attitudes toward natural history among ASA members He wrote a paper for the 1949 meeting (which he could not attend) attacking Price s flood geology

The influence of Bernard Ramm Goshen College, 1950

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Evolution and Christian Thought Today, edited by Russell L. Mixter (1959)

Henry Morris & John C. Whitcomb, Jr. (in 1984) http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/am/v6/n1/whitcomb-and-morris.jpg)

The influence of Richard Bube

Bube: creation and/or evolution

Pepperdine University, 2002