George McCready Price

George McCready Price ( born August 26, 1870 in Havelock, New Brunswick, Canada, † January 24, 1963 in Loma Linda, California, USA) was a Canadian creationist. He has a large number of creationist works written, especially of the field of " flood geology ". He was therefore an important pioneer of creationist " creation science ", which is the science of (mostly as a pseudo-science ) rejected. After his death, Henry M. Morris and John Whitcomb took up his views.

Life

Price was born in Havelock, New Brunswick ( Canada). His father died in 1882. His mother joined the Church of Seventh- day Adventists. He married in 1887 a member of this church.

Price became a teacher and taught from 1891 to 1893 at the Adventist Battle Creek College (now Andrews University), and then at various other schools.

He met Alfred Corbett Smith know, the fundamentalist attitude made ​​about funny Prices and introduced him to scientific literature. Price, who took the view that the earth is young, concluded that geologists would have to have their data misinterpreted.

1902, Price published his first book Outlines of Modern Christianity and Modern Science, self-published. In 1906 Illogical Geology.

His opposition to the theory of evolution

In 1923 he wrote his major work The New Geology, a 726- page textbook, which contained a large number of arguments that refute his opinion, the theory of evolution. Several of these arguments are still popular today in creationist circles.

One of his main arguments is that the theory of evolution is based on erroneous datings. Price said that fossils were dated after the age of geological layers in which they were found, and that the rock layers in turn received their age according to the fossils contained in them. Price believed that all arguments for the theory of evolution, based on the high age of the fossils were deceptive and that it constitutes circular reasoning with them. Price said that all fossils were the same age and that they had been deposited in the Flood.

The influence of his ideas

Prices defense of creation science and its attacks on evolution were first in 1925 also known as William Jennings Bryan his hypotheses and arguments in the famous Scopes trial ( " monkey trial " ) used.

His ideas were then taken up in the 1960s by Henry M. Morris and John Whitcomb in their book The Genesis Flood. This book was a formative influence on the development of the creationist " creation science ". The science writer and skeptic Martin Gardner described it as the "most important attack on evolution seen in the Scopes Trial ."

Credentials

  • Gardner, Martin. " George McCready Price. " The New Age: Notes of a Fringe -Watcher. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.

Bibliography

  • QED, or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation Gutenberg
  • The Predicament of Evolution (1925 ) online
  • Numbers, R. L. (1992). The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. University of California Press.
  • Clark, Harold W. (1966 ) Crusader for Creation, the Life and Work of George McCready Price. Pacific Press Publishing Company.
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