Of Tender Awe: Louis Agassiz and Evolution

Send a message to “Faith Ignited”In a time when faith is largely ridiculed and seen as foolish, we often forget that some of the most brilliant people in history had a firm belief in a Divine Creator. This episode discusses a contemporary of Charles Darwin whose name has been lost to the world because he stayed true to his beliefs. The great natural scientist’s life holds a much needed lesson for our day.Resources: Agassiz’s thoughts on the origin of species:https://wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch21_04.htm#:~:text=The%20foremost%20critic%20of%20Darwinism,challenge%20to%20Darwin's%20new%20thesishttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6078/pg6078-images.htmlhttps://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/the-prayer-of-agassiz-3/https://www.jstor.org/stable/18118https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_40/April_1892/Agassiz_at_Penikesehttp://kids.ochristian.com/Biographies-for-Children/Louis-Agassiz.shtmlhttps://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/11-3-compare.html#google_vignetteThe Other Eminent Men of Wilford Woodruff by: Vicki Jo Anderson