Originally published in 1995, Creation and Evolution in the Early American Scientific Affiliation is the tenth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2019. The volume comprises of original primary sources from the American Science Affiliation, a group formed following an invitation from the president of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, in answer to the perceived need for an academic society for American Evangelical Scientists to explicate the relationship between science and faith. The society confronted the debate between creation and evolution head on, leaving a paper trail documenting their thoughts and struggles. This diverse and expansive collection includes 53 selections that appeared during the organisations first two decades and focuses on the encounter between science and American evangelicalism in the twentieth century, in particular the debates surrounding the ever-increasing preference for evolutionary theory. The collection will be of especial interest to natural historians, and theologians as well as academics of philosophy, and history.
Series Introduction Volume Introduction
1. The Story of the American
Scientific Affiliation American Scientific Affiliation
2. Introduction,
Preface and
Chapter One from Science to Souls
3. Geology and the Bible
4.
Biology and Creation
5. Astronomy and the First
Chapter of Genesis
6. A
Symposium on "The Age of the Earth"
7. Creation and Evolution
8. The Eye as
an Optical Instrument
9. The Science of Heredity and the Source of Species
(includes discussion)
10. The Scientifico-Logical Structure of the Theory of
Evolution (includes discussion)
11. Some Presuppositions in Evolutionary
Thinking (includes discussion)
12. Biology and Christian Fundamentals
13.
Deluge Geology
14. Comment on the "Deluge Geology"
15. The Plan in the First
Chapter of Genesis
16. Why God Called His Creation Good (includes discussion)
17. The Palaeontology of the Horse (includes discussion)
18. Methods of
Dating the Earth and the Universe
19. The American Scientific Affiliation
The First Decade
20. Biblical Chronology and Genesis 1:1-3 (includes
discussion)
21. Creation Days
22. The "Kind of Genesis and the Species" of
Biology
23. The Evaluation of Radioactive Evidence on the Age of the Earth
24. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology (includes discussion)
25. Creation in
Terms of Modern Concepts of Genetics and Physics
26. A Criticism of the
A.S.A. Monograph on "Creation and Evolution"
27. Reply to Criticism of
"Creation and Evolution"
28. The Reconstruction or Cataclysmic Theory
29.
Response to Mixter Regarding A.S.A. Monograph on "Creation and Evolution"
30.
The Impact of Geological Dating upon the Interpretation of Biblical
Chronology
31. Creation
32. The Formation of Living Organisms from Non-Living
Systems
33. An Evaluation of the Fossil Record
34. Comments on Dr. Mixters
Paper
35. The Evolution of Evangelical Thinking on Evolution
36. A Critique
of Evolution
37. Species Concepts and Definitions
38. The Genesis Kinds in
Our Modern World
39. Some Implications of Evolution for A.S.A.
40. The Origin
of Man and the Bible
41. Letter
42. Neutron-Induced Variation of Roses
43.
Creation, a Finished Work
44. Origin of Life
45. Comments on the Origin of
Species
46. Christian Thought Today On Origin of Species
47. The Origin of
Man, and the Bio-cultural Gap
48. Geology and the Great Flood.
