The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903-1961 (Creationism in Twentieth-Century America)

ISBN: 0367434628

Author: Davis, Edward B.

Condition: New

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer is the sixth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America. The volume brings together original sources from the prominent evangelist and pastor Harry Rimmer. The consortium of pamphlets in this volume detail Rimmers antievolutionist sentiments, a notion which characterized his early writings. The pamphlets detail Rimmers rhetoric on evolution and science from the early part of the 20th century as he travelled across America to disseminate his writings. The works in this volume address Rimmers polemic on the danger posed by modern science and the consequential disassociation with religion. While Rimmer did not discount science itself, he argued for, what he termed, true science, claiming that modern science was based only in scientific opinion and not fact. As a self-proclaimed scientist, these writings take a unique view of the relationship between religion and science from this period through Rimmers dual nature as both scientist and pastor. This volume will be of great interest to historians of natural history, science and religion.