The "preadamite" controversy had thus been amplified to include potential human biological ancestry from an anthropoid primate stock.
Could such beings as "Preadamites" have existed in the distant past?
My mother's younger sister, Aunt Else, who had moved to New York as early as '29, eking out a living as secretary-typist for Bosco Chocolate Powder, came home for a visit to Furth and brought my brother a Kodak, one of those
preadamite things which yield eight pictures a roll, the numbers visible through circular reddish celluloid.
The nonlinear, meandering nature of Yeryomin's structures both records and creates the labyrinthine lines, scratches, and tunnels of a
preadamite landscape.
See Livingstone, "The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion," in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 82:3 (1992): 49.
The lectures were without incident until 1878, when Winchell published Adamites and Preadamites, and a Methodist newspaper in St.
An appendix dedicated to the
preadamite theory embraced by the white supremacist Christian Identity movement brings the book to a startling close.
In this context, Alexander Winchell's Adamites and
Preadamites (1878) provides a theological North Star by which others might navigate a path that harmonizes the natural sciences and the Bible.
Winchell, A.,
Preadamites or A Demonstration of the Men Before Adam; Together with A Study of Their Condition, Antiquity, Racial Affinites; and Progressive Dispersion Over the Earth, (Chicago: S.C.
Presbyterian James Lyon recorded his dismay when a Baptist minister in his hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, influenced by "Ariel," started preaching that blacks were "
preadamites." Lyon delivered a series of sermons supporting the unity of all races but lamented the popular presses' support for the new infidelity.