Louis Agassiz

While no fans of the idea that they shared an ancestor with apes, some of the Christian worthies in this book objected equally to an older heresy called polygenism, promoted by Louis Agassiz and others, which held that the human races were created separately all over the earth, for distinct purposes.

Back to the Beginning Jennie Erin Smith 2011

Consider what Louis Agassiz, Harvard professor and creationist, had to say in a letter to his mother in 1846:

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John Brown makes an appearance here, too; and Louis Agassiz; and Presidents Lincoln and Pierce - all quickly made complex and human.

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Consider what Louis Agassiz, Harvard professor and creationist, had to say in a letter to his mother in 1846:

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind 2010

In 1873, Louis Agassiz died of another cerebral hemorrhage.

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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a leading natural historian of the Nineteenth Century.

Agassiz, Louis 2009

Louis Agassiz once was asked how he had spent his summer, and he said, “I spent it traveling, I got halfway across my backyard.”

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Darwin and Sedgwick couldn't see the evidence for glaciers because the theory of glaciation had not yet been proposed (by Louis Agassiz in 1837).

David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious 2008

The BIG LIE even gained the support of respectable scientists, such as the polygenist, Louis Agassiz.

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"" A scientific mistake, '' thundered Louis Agassiz, then the world's leading naturalist -- "" untrue in its facts ... and mischievous in its tendency. ''

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