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  • History and analysis of the creation research society

    Creator:
    Elliott, William E.
    Abstract:
    The resurgence of creationism the past few years has been led by advocates of recent-creationism. These individuals, a minority among creationists in general, argue that the entire universe was created approximately 10,000 years ago in one six-day period of time. Recent-creationists support their position by appealing to the Genesis account...
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    Masters Thesis
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    - mitment. Five of the ten founders of the CRS (John Klotz, Frank Marsh, Edwin Monsma, Wilbert Rusch, and

  • The Oregon eugenic movement : Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair

    Creator:
    Currey, Linda Lorraine
    Abstract:
    In 1906, applying Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories to the human race, Sir Francis Galton introduced the concept of eugenics, "the science of the improvement of the human race by better breeding." The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance and an upsurge in hereditarian thought set the stage...
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    detract from the major emphasis of his work. In an 1857 letter to Russell Wallace, Darwin wrote: 5

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

    Creator:
    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    Masters Thesis