On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:54:09 -0500 "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
writes:
> George McCready Price was popular among conservative Prots in the
> 1920s,
> whether or not they accepted his flood geology (most I think did
> not) and
> his recent creation (nearly all did not). He had more than 2 dozen
> articles
> in the Sunday School Times (a leading fundamentalist weekly) during
> the
> 1920s, and also a few in the staid Princeton Theological Review.
> Harry
> Rimmer thought well of Price, and he was one of the (very few)
> "scientists"
> (he wasn't a scientist, of course) that William Jennings Bryan hoped
> to have
> as an expert witness at the Scopes trial (Price was in England and
> declined
> the invitation). Mostly, as far as I can tell, the cons Prots liked
> his
> aggressive anti-evolution stance. The rest, they could take it or
> leave it.
> Mainly, leave it.
>
> Ted
>
I picked up on Price in the '40s on the basis of what I was taught in a
Bible institute apologetics class. Only later did I learn that the
ultimate basis of his works was a revelation to Ellen G. White,
prophetess of the Seventh Day Adventists, that the days of Genesis were
24 hours long and consecutive. He abandoned a supplemental revelation
about the distribution of fossils by the flood after its first
publication in an early book of his. EGW had a revelation that the
smallest animals were caught by the first rise of the waters. Larger
animals got higher on the mountains. The largest creatures made it to the
top of the mountains before being drowned. When the waters receded, a
great wind distributed the mountain material into the way we find it now.
I find it so wonderful that an inerrant prophetess could produce the
authoritative interpretation of scripture.
Dave (ASA)
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