Category: evolution

Harrison Arboretum, image via Wikipedia

Tales from the Archives: Cleon Skousen, George Hansen, and Geology

October 5, 2021 /

My last post talked about Cleon Skousen’s book, The First 2000 Years. Today I came across an interview with BYU professor Bertrand Harrison, a biology and botany professor. If you’ve ever been to the garden or duck pond on the south end of BYU campus, on 800 North, that’s the Bertrand F. Harrison Arboretum, pictured above

Harrison had written one of the most pro-evolution articles ever published in a Church magazine, and it was specifically read and approved by President McKay to appear in the magazine. That article was part of a controversial  pro-science series in Church magazines in 1965, which I detailed here.

I came across this interview with Harrison, wherein he relates an anecdote about George Hansen and Cleon Skousen. Continue reading

I don't know the origin of this image, but I like it

Science as a Legitimate Contributor to our Knowledge of Creation and Earth History

March 11, 2021 /

As noted in a prior post, Orson F. Whitney authored the 1909 First Presidency statement on “The Origin of Man.” He sent a letter to John Widtsoe with that draft, along with some notes. Although Whitney was strongly opposed to evolution, he acknowledge that science could play a role in clarifying earth history.   Continue reading