Bøger udgivet af Howard Ray White

By taking a short time to read this 54-page book, "Understanding Creation and Evolution: A Biblical and Scientific Comparative Study," you will likely become comfortable with the proposition that the Creation Story in Genesis and today's Scientific Knowledge do not have to disagree, if intelligently understood. You will understand how descendants of Adam and Eve evolved into the races of Man, and what makes people different, and why it is so, if intelligently understood. After considerable personal research and study, I take comfort in finding a pathway that makes sense of both Creation and Evolution, whereby their apparent conflicts are resolved and seem to fade away. The pathway to the understanding we humans seek is revealed, to a considerable extent by our realizing that God's revelation of His Creation is not, in fact, unchanging. It too is moving with time. Why? Because, God, it seems obviously apparent, had never revealed scientific knowledge to his prophets. Yes, God made Man with the intelligence and ability to, collectively, discover scientific truths and exploit them to advance human civilization and quality of life. And - this is so important - He has always been determined to present revelations to His prophets in language and concept that fits into each prophet's level of scientific, geographic and biological knowledge. What does that mean? It means that words and concepts given to His prophets and passed down to us in today's Bible were chosen to fit within the understood terminology of the era when first revealed. And, it is that long-ago, primitive terminology that clouds our ability to understand His revelations. So, our challenge is to mentally place ourselves in the knowledge basis of thousands of years ago and seek to make sense of the book of Genesis from that perspective. This is what I have striven to do. I have placed myself, mentally, into the knowledge basis of thousands of years ago, and then begun to read. In so doing, I have found a pathway that leads to understanding how both Creation and Evolution can be understood with far more agreement than generally thought. And what about Evolution? How about human Evolution? I have studied that as well. And I find that Evolution will become far more understandable to us today if we mate our Creation knowledge to our Evolution knowledge and examine the resulting child, which I will call "unified knowledge." My study attempts to do this - to resolve a "unified knowledge" that is derived from an intelligent and unbiased analysis of what we humans know about both Creation and Evolution. So, with that said, let me close by inviting you to join me in my journey toward understanding and thank you for taking a short time to gain insight from this concise, 54-page book. Howard Ray White

The most influential literary contribution to the politics of the northern States during the mid-to-late 1850's - helping incite State Secession and a horrific four-year war that killed 360,000 Federals - was Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in 1851-52, just before the onset of "Bleeding Kansas." Likewise, that war's most influential music/poetry contribution - morally justifying, in the minds of many northern States people, the military conquest of the Confederacy and the huge death toll suffered - was Julia Ward Howe's poem "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), a variation upon the then-recent Federal army camp folk song, "John Brown's Body," which was an intentional mockery of a very popular, traditional South Carolina church revival song, "Say, Brothers," its music and lyrics written by William Steffe a few years earlier. The "Battle Hymn" is handed down to us today as "lyrics by Julia Ward Howe and music by William Steffe." The two essays in this booklet are excerpted from Howard Ray White's four volume history, titled, "Bloodstains, an Epic History of the Politics that Produced and Sustained the American Civil War and the Political Reconstruction that Followed." This booklet and other works by the writer are available as e-books and as paper books on Amazon.com. Search "Howard Ray White". In the mid-1800's women were not to be leaders in politics and religion, but Harriet Beecher Stowe and Julia Ward Howe did just that. Of Harriet, daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher, both influential Abolitionists/ministers/educators, Sinclair Lewis would write: "Uncle Tom's Cabin was the first evidence to America that no hurricane can be so disastrous to a country as a ruthlessly humanitarian woman." The same could be equally said of Julia, a close friend of Charles Sumner and, wife of Boston Abolitionist leader Samuel Howe, one of the "Secret Six" financial supporters of the notorious John Brown.