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388: 584: 186:. He stated "By no stretch of legitimate reasoning can Darwinism be made to exclude design. Indeed, if it should be proved that species have developed from others of a lower order, as varieties are supposed to have done, it would strengthen rather than weaken the standard argument from design." That is, he subscribed to 143:. They travelled together until an unfortunate incident in which Mabel's horse rolled on her and broke her leg. Wright and Cotsworth remained friends and often corresponded about geology; particularly ice ages and glaciers. Wright helped Cotsworth to formulate his theory of the perpetual movement of continents. 24: 112:(1872 – 1881). He then accepted a professorship of New Testament language and literature at Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1892 he took a newly created professorship in "harmony of science and revelation". In 1907 he was made professor emeritus and retired on a 131:
from 1907 until shortly before he died. His geology interests took him all over the world — Alaska, Greenland, China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Siberia, Turkestan, and the Caucasus and Lebanon mountains — gathering original information for the books he published.
168:, but he otherwise taught that the biblical creation stories were meant to teach theological truths, and thus should not be expected to reveal scientific knowledge. However, after a crisis of faith in the 1890s brought on by 176:, he readjusted his views on origins to line up more closely with a literalist reading of the biblical creation stories. In his later writings, including the chapter he wrote for 147: 182:, he accepted geologic time, but argued that human origins required divine intervention, and that biological variation extending to form new species would be 629: 50:" (until retirement in 1907). He wrote prolifically, publishing works in geology, history, and theology. Early in his career he was an outspoken defender of 417: 493: 469:
Cook, Anna J (2024). A Man Beyond Time: Moses Cotsworth's fight for the 13-month calendar. Independent Publishing Network ISBN 9781805177203
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He was assistant geologist with the Pennsylvania Geological Survey in 1881 and 1882, and with the
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in 1859 and received an M.A. from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1862. In 1887 he obtained a
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faith with the new biology and geology. He also helped edit Gray's collection of essays,
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Ron Numbers, "George Frederick Wright: From Christian Darwinist to Fundamenalist",
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Wright, G. F. (1916) Story of my life and work Oberlin: Bibliotheca Sacra Company
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language and literature (1881 – 1892), and then of "harmony of science and
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In 1861, during the Civil War, he served in the Union army for 5 months.
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The Ice Age in North America, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man
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In 1900 he travelled with his son Fred Wright to Egypt where he met
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The Testimony of the Monuments to the Truth of the Scriptures
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The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
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An Inquiry concerning the Relation of Death to Probation
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Representative Citizens of Ohio: Memorial-Biographical
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The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky
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He also frequently lectured at the 381: 486:", Christian Classics Library, 1907 13: 14: 646: 568: 234:The Divine Authority of the Bible 582: 575:Works by George Frederick Wright 386: 251:(New York, 1889; 5th ed., 1911) 218:Studies in Science and Religion 193: 16:For the mayor of Honolulu, see 563:. Vol. 42. December 1892. 463: 454: 90:. He was made a Fellow of the 1: 476: 92:Geological Society of America 201:Logic of Christian Evidences 61: 40:Oberlin Theological Seminary 7: 581:(public domain audiobooks) 308:Origin and Antiquity of Man 10: 651: 610:American Christian writers 265:Man and the Glacial Period 15: 66:G. F. 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George F. Wright

geologist
Oberlin Theological Seminary
New Testament
revelation
Darwinism
theistic evolution
Whitehall, New York
Oberlin College
D.D.
Brown University
LL.D.
Drury College
Geological Society of America
Congregational
Bakersfield, Vermont
Andover, Massachusetts
Carnegie Pension
Lowell Institute
USGS
Ohio Historical Society
Moses B. Cotsworth
Mabel Bent
Christian Darwinists
Asa Gray
Calvinist
Darwiniana
special creation
Charles Augustus Briggs

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