Apostle James E. Talmage reads an article from Church magazine "The Improvement Era" to the First Presidency. The article, by non-mormon writer J. C. Homans (two years earlier Homans, writing under the name of "Dr. R. C. Webb, PhD," had published articles and a book attempting to defend the Book of Abraham against dismissals by leading Egyptologists) attempts to refute evolution. First Counselor Anthon H. Lund comments that it does not strike him as particularly logical in its assertions.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
The series of 7 articles written by Robert C. Webb (pseudonym for J. C. Homans) in the Improvement Era were:
ReplyDelete“Science Falsely So-Called,” Aug. 1914, pp. 901-09.
“The Evolution Hypothesis: What It Is,” Sept. 1914, pp. 1040-47.
“Fatal Objections to the Evolution Hypothesis,” Oct. 1914, pp. 1130-38.
“Evolution Arguments Analyzed,” Nov. 1914, pp. 24-33.
“The Evolution Hypothesis and the Geological Record,” Dec. 1914, pp. 127-34.
“Evolution Not Supported by Embryology,” Jan. 1915, pp. 247-52.
“Thoughts on the Orign of Life,” Feb. 1915, pp. 402-16.
Dr. Ritner's work has once and for all time completely destroyed the credibility of the so-called "translation" of the BOA, which should be now called the Book of Pseudo-Abraham (BOPA).
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