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Pre-Adamite theories have also been held by a number of mainstream Christians such as the Congregational evangelist R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), who believed in the Gap Theory. Torrey believed it was possible to accept both evolution and biblical infallibility , with the pre-Adamite as the bridge between religion and science.
Isaac La Peyrère (French pronunciation: [izak la peʁɛʁ]; 1596–1676), also known as Isaac de La Peyrère or Pererius, was a French-born theologian, writer, and lawyer.La Peyrère is best known as a 17th-century predecessor of the scientific racialist theory of polygenism in the form of his Pre-Adamite hypothesis, which offered a challenge to traditional Abrahamic understandings of the ...
A private memo written in 1931 by the First Presidency to church general authorities confirmed a neutral stance on the existence of pre-Adamites and "death before the fall." It further asserted that geology, biology, and other sciences were best left to scientists (and implicitly, not theologians), and were not central to the Gospel.
[32] Talmage considered the possibility of pre-Adamites; however, he denied speciation and evolution. [44]: 178 1968 – In general conference, McKay's son, David, read a message on his father's behalf that was an edited version of the 1952 speech, including the omission of the word "beautiful" when describing the theory of evolution. [45]
She wrote a book, Pre-Adamite man : or, the story of our old planet & its inhabitants, told by Scripture & science, about the creation which combined scientific theories with the stories from Genesis in the Bible. This pre-Adamite theory postulated a race of people before Adam, and also explained the origin of angels.
In an unusual blend of contemporary evolutionary thinking and pre-Adamism, the theistic evolutionist and geologist Alexander Winchell argued in his 1878 book Adamites and Preadamites for the pre-Adamic origins of the human race on the basis that Africans were too racially inferior to have developed from the Biblical Adam. Winchell also believed ...
Much of the racism in Christian Identity is the result of the pre-Adamite hypothesis, [40] which is a cornerstone of Identity theology. [41] Christian Identity adherents believe that Adam and Eve were only the ancestors of white people . [ 42 ]
[2]: 123 McCausland credits Hugh Miller with this theory. [3] [4] McCausland was an early proponent of pre-adamism. In 1864, McCausland published the first of two works on ethnology, Adam and the Adamite. McCausland sought to harmonise scriptural accuracy with physical science.