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Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context) Hardcover – October 8, 2024

by Edward B. Davis (Author)

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A critical edition of ten rare pamphlets on science and religion published from 1922–1931 by the University of Chicago Divinity School.

In the years surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925, liberal Protestant scientists, theologians, and clergy sought to diminish opposition to evolution and to persuade American Christians to adopt more positive attitudes toward modern science. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and many leading scientists, the University of Chicago Divinity School published a series of ten pamphlets on science and religion to counter William Jennings Bryan’s efforts to ban evolution in public schools.

In Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, historian Edward B. Davis, who discovered these pamphlets, reprints them with extensive editorial comments, annotations, and introductions to each. Based on unpublished correspondence and internal Divinity School documents, these introductions narrate the origin of the pamphlets, as well as their funding sources and how readers reacted to them. Letters from dozens of top scientists at the time reveal their previously unknown views on God and the relationship between science and religion. Viewed together, the pamphlets and Davis’s critical assessment of their historical importance provide an intriguing perspective on Protestant modernist encounters with science in the early twentieth century.

In a probability distribution we need to consider the first, second, third, and fourth moments of the probability distribution.

This is going to be important for statistical physics and physical chemistry. And in these fields of science we are going to be able to calculate the number of states in a probability distribution which exist within a given distribution. 

Lets talk about moments. Such as second moment and second central moment.  Second central moment is a term used by science but a mathematician knows it only as variance.

From wikipedia:

See moment(mathematics).

Moment(physics) will talk about dipole moments and quadrapole moments, etc, which we all know and love. But these are not probability distributions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(mat

In mathematics, the moments of a function are certain quantitative measures related to the shape of the function’s graph. If the function represents mass density, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment (normalized by total mass) is the center of mass, and the second moment is the moment of inertia. If the function is a probability distribution, then the first moment is the expected value, the second central moment is the variance, the third standardized moment is the skewness, and the fourth standardized moment is the kurtosis.

For a distribution of mass or probability on a bounded interval, the collection of all the moments (of all orders, from 0 to ∞) uniquely determines the distribution (Hausdorff moment problem). The same is not true on unbounded intervals (Hamburger moment problem).

1. A God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.

True.

2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.

True.

3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about one’s self.

NOT TRUE.

4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.

DEFINITELY NOT TRUE.

5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

NOT TRUE.

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The more you travel Northbound in Europe, the more people become quiet and especially reserved. The most extreme example of this phenomenon definitely is the nonexistence of small talk in Finland.

Finnish people do not know what small talk is — it is nonexistent in their language, and some children only lear about small talk when learning English in school:

They were taught at school that they had to make small talk in English because foreigners do. And that actually they didn’t even know about small talk outside the English lessons.

(The last quote was taken from The Helsinki Times, but I could not retrieve the original newspaper article.)

Talking to fill up silences is not done — that’s why sudden silences at Finnish receptions or other social gatherings can last for minutes at a time. Your Finnish companions don’t mind the silence at all — why talk about something without having a good, relevant reason ? — but you might find it rather uncomfortable.

The same conversations can also happen in other Nordic places such as Trondheim, Tromsø and the like, for that matter (that’s where I encountered them myself), but I like those silences a whole lot better than constant American-like babbling — as if some people are afraid of the absence of the notes.

But not the Finnish vikings.

They let the silence be, so do not even try to fill it up with noise —

And never EVER start about the weather.

OK Joel, I took your friend request. You asked for it! Dont get upset!

You see….I AM A HERETIC.

Why am I a heretic? Welllllll……1) I believe Jesus the Messiah came to earth to bring peace between God and Humans. Not to bring peace between humans. The Bible says variously that Jesus came to bring a sword. And strife. When your believe you will be persecuted, not loved. The world will hate you. GASP! HERESY!!!!!!

The myth that every humans is supposed to hug and love everybody else, or else they are not a Christian…that is a Marxist idea. Not a Christian idea. GASP! HERESY!!!!!!

Another heresy: The King James Bible is just a translation done by flawed scholars 500 years ago. It is nothing special. GASP! HERESY!!!!

Because of the above two ideas to which I do not conform, i have had tones of Christians block me on facebook.

Another heresy: Common descent. Mike Behe told me personally he believes in common descent. the historical trail says nothing about the “mechanism” whereby one form turned into another form. TEG, The Engineering God, tweaked every species. this takes, of course, two individual organisms to be tweaked in order to have a reproducing pair, and to get a population going. GASP! HERESY!!!! IT’S NOT YEC!!!!!!
Its ID!!!!!!! My view it’s not naturalistic at all. Its theistic.

Or maybe it’s even biologos!!!! In that case Francis Collins is a fellow heretic (I guess). According to some people, hell will be crammed full of the biologos.

So, you see, you friended a very definite heretic. You are guaranteed to be certifiably irritated.

Reasons why I cannot attend Berean Baptist Church any more. It Is Not Safe.

My church has a 12 step group. They constantly do something that nukes my week.

So there is another group they have called “Untying the Knots.” I told them I could go if “they dont try to FIX me.”

This leads to a discussion with a pastor and I haven’t had that yet. I want a chance to explain to him why adult children of alcoholics cannot attend the church 12 step group – it is a matter of crosstalk.

[see below for ACA material on crosstalk].


Meanwhile as to why I am maybe leaving the church: I do need to give the pastors background material such as the Big Red Book as they can understand this population group of adult children. So the church stops spiritual malpractice and stops sabotaging the recovery of adult children in their congregation. Which I have witnessed first hand.

Anyway, looking at https://untyingknots.org/2021/06/02/hello-world/ I see some principles.

Module 1:
The importance of, and how to create a safe group environment to help us sort through significant life issues.

BINGO! Cross Talk shames and shuts down adult children by triggering their childhood survivor skills .(aka the laundry list). Its like pouring booze down the throat of an alcoholic. VERY UNKIND FOR A CHURCH TO DO THIS.

Module 4:
Why God the Father is the only one we should be listening to concerning the questions of, “Who we are, what we are worth, and where is life found.”

Given that statement, why then do the fundamentalists insist THEY are the ones who give advice and try to tell the members how to live and how to follow God rather than letting God speak to the member? That *IS* the source of the urge to cross talk. “I’m proper, you’re not, you need to repent, that will fix you.” Which is nonsense according to Module 4 above. After getting advice from people you are thinking about what the people said, not what God said. They need to speak THEIR OWN JOURNEY, not yours. WATCH THEIR OWN BOBBER, not yours. Its worse. The fundamentalists want you to cross talk other people and mind their bobber, as if it is any of your business. This is part of their religious conviction.

I spent the last year telling them no, I work only on me. You work on you, I work on me. But they are not listening. They still have to dump a bunch of unwelcome unsolicited advice on you. So in 8 weeks I have not been back.

Tomorrow I am trying another bible study. its not safe so I won’t tell them anything about me ever again. If they don’t know anything they cannot comment on me.

Meanwhile I am going to secular adult children 12 step groups who don’t have Christian PIETY issues. who aren’t FULL OF THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.

God speaks to me in those secular groups. I cannot hear God’s voice at Berean Baptist Church because the people talk over him.

If only they would stick to the scriptures and keep their freaking extra-biblical opinions to themselves.

How many people in the universe experience this? I feel like I hear it from tons of folks.

So, is this a Baptist thing? I don’t think so. There is no doctrine that says to do this. Quite the contrary, Mark Chapter 7 speaks against self righteousness and my church gave a sermon on this on July 28th.

Is it a fundamentalist thing? Maybe so. Why? It has to do with tribes. “Our tribe is proper, yours is not. Comply with our tribe.” “Our tribe does it right, your does not, so comply with our tribe. Your are wrong. Your life is wrong. Repent.” It is all based on rules and shame and things artificial.

All humans do this of course. But why does a church do it?

Is there any hope? I don’t know. Right now I am stuck. I have to try something new. It might go sideways because of the culture of fundamentalism. I am sort of paper thin these days. Out of gas. Running on empty. I went to church to get refilled and revitalized and instead I got this crap.

Sept 15, 2024: I tried a new class on worldviews. This changes my mind about leaving the church. The material looks dynamite. The fact the church is investing in this class shows they have their thinking hats on. And over the last year I had not seen that much thinking effort put into the church direction.