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title: 'The Evolution Controversy'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Robert Alexander Webb'
date: 1916-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Creation and Evolution'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Genesis 2'
- 'Romans 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/webb-1916-the-evolution-controversy
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# The Evolution Controversy

Account of the 1883–84 Southern Presbyterian controversy over Prof. James Woodrow's evolutionary views at Columbia Theological Seminary, debating creation, Scripture, heresy, and seminary authority.

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