Internet: Creationism in the 20th Century
Vol. 3. The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown by Ronald N. Numbers, Ed. 1995. xii + 208 pages,
introductions. $55.00.
American-born Arthur I. Brown, M.D. (1875-1947), from Vancouver, played a major role as a critic
of evolution in the 1920s and 1930s. He left a lucrative surgical practice in 1925 to devote
his time to lecturing on science and the Bible. Brown argued against evolution on scientific and
scriptural grounds. Enormously popular in the U. S. with his national fundamentalist audiences, he
was seen by his adversaries as well educated, gracious, and a master of the lecture stage. As most
of his contemporaries during the early part of the century, he accepted the notion of an ancient earth.
The six short examples of Brown's writing focus on a plethora of examples of alleged deficiencies in
evolutionist arguments and copious quotes from scientist skeptics of Darwinism. Scripture is used only
in general terms but with the repeated affirmation that it is in complete compliance with scientific
fact (even thousands of years before the facts were discovered).
Internet: Creationism in the 20th Century
A Brief History of the Modern American Creation Movement by Jerry Bergman
Arthur Isaac Brown, a practicing physician in Vancouver, British Columbia,
published many anti-evolution books, including Footprints of God (1943), Miracles of
Science (1945), and others. He was a Baptist, a long age creationist, and accepted the gap
theory (Morris, 1984).