Presbyterian Attitudes Toward Science and the Coming of Darwinism in America, 1859 to 1929

444 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. served as a weathervane for the American Protestant reaction to developments in science following the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species. The reaction to Darwin, of course, was varied and historians continue to examine the effects of the Darwinian ReU of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD