Re: [asa] Who's to blame for the lost ones?

The question on the header of this thread is indeed a crucial one--and it
was also very important in the 1920s, when this issue really heated up for
the first time. On this aspect, at least, nothing in the controversy has
changed in 80 years. (On some other aspects, significant change has
occurred, but I digress.)

In the late winter of 1922, William Jennings Bryan and Harry Emerson
Fosdick debated this very point in the pages of the New York Times. I'm
writing a book about what came out of that, since there is so much that can
be said. To see the original exchange, look for Bryan's editorial "God and
Evolution" and Fosdick's reply, "Evolution and Mr Bryan." You might find
multiple URLs for these, but here are links to both:

Bryan: http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/scopes/BryanGodandEvolution.html
See esp the final section (Religion Waning Among Children)

Fosdick:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE7DC1E3EEE3ABC4A52DFB5668389639EDE
See esp his comments on the "Danger of Materialistic Teaching"

The longer version of Bryan's comments, which were based on his stump
speech on The Menace of Darwinism (New York, 1922), is found at
http://home.messiah.edu/~tdavis/texts.htm, where some other important
texts on Christianity and science are also found. :-)

Ted

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Received on Thu Jun 5 09:30:54 2008