Frank Lewis Marsh
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Frank Lewis Marsh (18 October 1899,
Biography
In his youth, Marsh desired to become a physician, but lacked the financial means, so he became first a nurse, then a teacher instead. He studied geology at
Marsh was married to dietitian Alice G. Marsh. They had two children, Kendall and Sylvia.[2]
In his book Fundamental Biology, Marsh described himself as a "fundamentalist scientist". He argued that modern human races are degenerate forms of first-created man and warned that the living world is the scene of a cosmic struggle between the
In Fundamental Biology, Marsh coined the term
Marsh commented that "The Bible knows nothing about organic evolution. It regards the origin of man by special creation as a historical fact... In view of the subjectivity of the evidence upon which a decision on the matter of origins must be made, creationism and evolutionism should be respected as alternate viewpoints".[5]
His creationist views have been criticized by biologists for having no scientific basis. For instance, Theodosius Dobzhansky said that Marsh assumes that all dogs, foxes, and hyenas are members of a single kind descending from a common ancestor in less than 6000 years, a speed of evolution far faster than any evolutionary biologist could conceive.[6][7][8][9]
Publications
- (1941) Fundamental Biology
- (1944) Evolution, Creation and Science
- (1947) Evolution or Special Creation?
- (c. 1950) Studies in Creationism
- (c. 1957) Life, Man and Time
- (1976) Variation and Fixity in Nature
See also
- Creation biology
- Creation–evolution controversy
- Young Earth creationism
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
Notes
- ^ Numbers 2006, pp. 148–149.
- ^ "Alice and the Nutrinauts" (PDF). Focus: The Andrews University Magazine. 43 (3): 24–27. 2007.
- ^ a b Lustig, Richards & Ruse 2004, p. 92.
- ^ Numbers 2006, p. 150, f28, pp 480–481
- ^ McIver 1988, p. 166.
- ^ Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Evolution, Creation, and Science by Frank Lewis Marsh. The American Naturalist. Vol. 79, No. 780 (Jan. - Feb., 1945), pp. 73-75.
- ^ Evolution, Creation and Science by Frank Lewis Marsh. The Quarterly Review of Biology.Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep., 1945), pp. 267-268.
- ^ Tobie, Walter C. Life, Man, and Time by Frank Lewis Marsh. The Quarterly Review of Biology. Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 1957), pp. 286-287.
- ^ Numbers 2006, p. 151
References
- Lustig, Abigail; Richards, Robert J.; Ruse, Michael, eds. (2004). Darwinian Heresies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81516-9.
- McIver, Tom (1988). Anti-Evolution: A Reader's Guide to Writings Before and After Darwin. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4520-3.
- ISBN 0-674-02339-0.
Further reading
- Numbers, Ronald L., ed. (1994). The Early Writings of Harold W. Clark and Frank Lewis Marsh. Creationism in Twentieth-Century America. Vol. 8. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-1809-X.
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