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The Modern Day PlagueProgressivism
The Presidents who saddled us with this problem and debt

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Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement was a Protestant intellectual movement that was
most prominent during the time period of 1880-1940 in the United States and
Canada, during the Third Great Awakening. It applied Christian principles to social
problems, especially poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad
hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war. Theologically, the Social Gospel
leaders were energized by the Third Great Awakening and were overwhelmingly
‖post-millennialist." This theology is what they believed, that the Second Coming of
Jesus Christ could not happen until humankind rid itself of social evils by human
effort. For the most part, they rejected pre-millennialist theology (which was
predominant in the South and among Fundamentalists), according to which the
Second Coming of Christ was imminent, and Christians should devote their
energies to preparing for it rather than addressing the issue of social evils. Social
Gospel leaders such as Washington Gladden, (1836-1918) were predominantly
liberal politically and theologically, although William Jennings Bryan was
theologically conservative and politically liberal. Most of the Social Gospellers
favored progressivism and labor unions. The ministers started to move away from
individual salvation to collective salvation. The answer for solving society‘s
problem was not in God‘s gospel but in a social gospel. The individual‘s charity
through his faith was not sufficient and it is not until society through whatever
means solves the problem that everyone will be saved.

Social Gospel
Prominent leaders in the U.S. included Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington
Gladden, Josiah Strong, W.D.P. Bliss, Irwin St. John Tucker, J. Stitt Wilson,
Franklin S. Spalding, George Washington Woodbey, and Bouck White. Economist
Richard Ely played a major role, as did John R. Mott and other leaders of the
YMCA. Most Protestant missionaries supported the movement as well. The
Federal Council of Churches (later renamed the National Council of Churches)
formed in 1908 as a coalition of mainstream Protestant denominations that lobbied
in Washington for reforms preached by the Social Gospellers.

Today’s Issues- Humanism
 Can America Survive Evolutionary Humanism?
 Evolution serves as the creation myth
―Evolution is a religion,‖ declared evolutionary humanist Michael Ruse.
 The denominations of evolutionary humanism are:
 Cultural Marxism/Communism, Secular humanism, Postmodernism,
and Spiritual Communism
 The offshoots of these denominations are:
 New Age, green environmentalism, Gaia, socialism,
progressivism, liberalism, multiculturalism, and atheism
 Dialectic- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by
the exchange of logical arguments.
 ―We may regard the material and cosmic world as the supreme
being, as the cause of all causes, as the creator of heaven and
earth.‖(Vladimir Lenin)
 ―The Cosmos is all that is or ever will be.‖ (Carl Sagan)
Deadly Problems
 Ethics must be built on human social instincts (that are in a
continuous process of change)

 Darwin wrote in his autobiography, ―. . .can have for his rule of life. . .
Those impulses and instincts which are strongest or. . . Seem to him the
best ones.‖
 ―If a person doesn‘t think there is a God to be accountable to, then. . .
what is the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within
acceptable ranges? That‘s how I thought. . . I always believed the theory
of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime.‖ (Jeffrey
Dahmer in an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, 11/29/1994)
 ―The universe cares nothing for us,‖ trumpets William Provine, Cornell
Name
Age
Date of death
Professor of1978
Stephen Hicks University19
Jun 6, Biology, ―And we have no ultimate meaning in life.‖
Steven Tuomi
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Sep 15, 1987
Jeffrey Dahmer during an
It!
James "Jamie"(―Scientists, Face Jan 1988 Science and Religion are Incompatible,‖ The
Doxtator
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interview for Dateline NBC
Richard Guerrero
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Mar 24, 1988
Scientist, Sept. 1988)25, 1989
with Stone Phillips.
Anthony Sears
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Mar
Eddie Smith  Man... 36
Jun degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic
1990
―must be 1990
Ricky Beeks
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Jul
Ernest Miller pattern. He must think of himself as an animal, capable of only animalistic
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Sep 1990
David Thomas
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Sep 1990
reactions.19 He must no longer think of himself . . . as capable of ‗spiritual
Curtis Straughter
Feb 1991
Errol Lindsey
19
Apr 1991
Tony Hughes endurance,‘ or nobility.‖ 1991
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May 24, By animalizing man his ―state of mind. . . can be
Konerak Sinthasomphone
May 27, 1991
ordered 14
and enslaved.‖
(Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics,
Matt Turner
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Jun 30, 1991
Jeremiah Weinberger
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Jul 5, 1991
Degradation and Shock, Chapter viii)
Oliver Lacy
Joseph Bradehoft

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Jul 12, 1991
Jul 19, 1991

 For it happens---by chance of
course---that some lucky ‗species‘
and ‗races‘ of the human animal are
more highly evolved (superior) and
therefore enlightened than the
others, who are---unluckily for them--less
evolved
and
as
a
consequence, subhuman.
 ―At some future period. . . the
civilized races of man will almost
certainly exterminate, and replace,
the savage races throughout the
world. . .the anthropomorphous
apes. . . will no doubt be
exterminated.‖ (Descent, 2nd ed., p.
183)
 Nazi Germany
 The Lebensborn (―Spring of Life‖)

SS Lebensborn
Child giving
Heinrich
Himmler flowers
A perfect Aryan family
and the son is a Hitler
Youth

SS Lebensborn being
baptized with full honors
SS Lebensborn Clinic


 The program founded in 1935 to create the master race by

Heinrich Himmler to bear blue-eyed, blond children. 8000 born
in Germany and 12,000 born in Norway. Hitler believed the
Nordic race was destined to rule the world.
 The Final Solution

 The Soviet Union
 Karl Marx wrote Fredrich Engels that Darwin‘s ‗Origin‘, ―is the book
which contains the basis in natural science for our view.‖ (Marxian
Biology and the Social Scene, Conway Zirkle, 1959

 Vladimir Lenin exulted that, ―Darwin put an end to
the belief that the animal and vegetable species bear
no relation to one another (and) that they were created
by God, and hence immutable.‖ (Fatal Fruit, Tom
DeRosa, p. 9)
 21st Century America
 Alexis de Tocqueville‘s insightful analysis of the
source of America‘s greatness: ―Not until I went into
the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame
with righteousness did I understand the secret and
genius of her power. America is great because she is
good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America
will cease to be great.‖

Humanist Manifesto
First plank:
Religious humanists
regard the universe as
self-existing and not
created.

Humanism

There is no God

Humanist Manifesto
Second plank:
Humanism believes that man
is a part of nature and that
he has emerged as a
result of a continuous
process.

Humanism

There is no God

Man is the product of evolution

Humanist Manifesto
Third plank:
Holding an organic view of
life, humanists find that
the traditional dualism of
mind and body must
be rejected.

Humanism

There is no God


There is no soul

Humanist Manifesto
Fourth plank:
Humanism recognizes that man’s
religious culture and civilization, as
clearly depicted by anthropology
and history, are the product of a
gradual development due to his
interaction with his natural
environment and with his social
heritage.

Humanism

There is no God


There is no soul
Religion is a product of evolution

Humanist Manifesto
Humanism

Fifth plank:
Religious Humanism considers
the complete realization of
human personality to be the end
of man’s life and seeks its
development and fulfillment in
the here and now.

There is no God

There is no soul
Religion is a product of evolution

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! (Epicurianism)

Humanism Quiz
1.

Name one of the denominations or offshoots of
evolutionary humanism.Secular humanism, Postmodernism,
Cultural Marxism/Communism,
Spiritual Communism, New Age, green environmentalism, Gaia, socialism,
progressivism, liberalism, multiculturalism, and atheism

2.

What was the name of the master race the Nazis were
trying to create through evolution?
The Lebensborn

3.

What was the name of the Nazi project to rid themselves
of undesirable people?
The Final Solution

4.

Alexis de Tocqueville‘s analysis of America surmised that
―America would cease to be great if America ceased to be
Good
_________ . ― (fill in the blank)

5.

Name one of Man is a product of evolution, There is no soul, Religion
There is no God, the planks of the Humanist Manifesto.
is a product of evolution, Eat, drink, and be merry (Epicurianism)

Today’s Issues- Eugenics
Eugenics- The Vehicle of Social Darwinists and Progressives
 intelligence is the key human quality
 intelligence is measurable
 intelligence is inherited
 the world would be a better place if more people were smart

 The

opposite of eugenics: All men are created equal "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

 The American ideal is based on the idea that people are equal.
 Eugenics, by contrast, is based on the idea that people are not equal.
 A New Generation of Americans

 JFK‘s Inaugural Speech- We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of
freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying
renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and
Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed
nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different
now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all
forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the
same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still
at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come
not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. We
dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe
alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of
Americans

 Etymology of eugenics- eu means good;
gen refers to birth or race
 The opposite of eu is dys meaning bad
 Francis Galton coined and promoted
the word in the 19th century in England
 He stated that he was building on
the ideas of Plato, Thomas Malthus
and his cousin, Charles Darwin.
 Population Problems in the Scriptures
 Israel in Egypt
 Ex 1: 8-22
 David and the census
 II Sam 24: 1-17
Sir Francis Galton

Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
 The central idea in the book is about population and
food supplies
 Population increases geometrically
 Malthusian alternatives to mass starvation- war, disease,
and vice
 Birth control was considered a vice by Malthus
 Neo-Malthusians today no longer consider birth
control a vice
 God is not concerned about the individual but the
whole human race
 Should people care for the poor?
 Jonathan Swift‘s ―Modest Proposal‖
 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor
People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or
Country, and Making Them Beneficial to the Public
An example of his satire against Malthusian doctrine


 Charles Darwin
 Darwin‘s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, proposed the theory of
evolution in the 1790s
 Natural selection-- ―survival of the fittest‖
 Evolutionist millions of years age vs. Archbishop James Ussher‘s
age of 4004 BC
 Darwin minimized the distinctions between animals and humans
 These laws included: . . . a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a
Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection,
entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved
forms.
 He wrote, "There is great reason to suspect, as Malthus has
remarked, that the reproductive power is actually less in the
barbarous, than in civilized races.‖

 He

wrote that Malthus "does not lay stress enough on what is
probably the most important of all, namely infanticide, especially of
female infants, and the habit of procuring abortion.
 ―On the other hand, as Mr. Galton has remarked, if the prudent
avoid marriage, whilst the reckless marry, the inferior members tend
to supplant the better members of society."

 For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little
monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his
keeper, or from that old baboon, who descending from the mountains,
carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished
dogs -- as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up
bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives
like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest
superstitions.
 Psalm 8 says: What is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of
man that Thou dost take thought of him? And yet Thou hast made him
little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Eugenics Quiz
1.

What is the vehicle of Social Darwinists and
Progressives?

2.

Who coined the word—eugenics?

3.

Who stated that we cannot grow enough food
to feed the population because the population
grows geometrically?

4.

What is another term for ―survival of the fittest?

5.

What did Darwin minimize the distinctions
between?

Today’s IssuesAbortion

 Abortion
 Origins
 Margaret Sanger
 Founder of Planned Parenthood,
inspiration to Adolf Hitler‘s eugenics
program, founded the Negro Project ―to rid
the world of worthless Negroes‖
 Lothrop Stoddard‘s interview with Adolf
Hitler and his book, The Rising Tide of
Color Against White World Supremacy.
 Dr. S. Adolfus Knopf of the American
Birth Control League (ABCL)
 Sanger declared charity to be more evil
than the assistance it provided to the poor
and needy.
 Planned Parenthood
 Largest abortion provider
 78% of the clinics are in minority
neighborhoods

Today’s Issues- Abortion
 Adolf Hitler - Fuehrer of Nazi Germany "The demand that defective people be
prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most
humane act of mankind." Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10 
 Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood ". . .we prefer the policy of
immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is ' absolutely prohibited ' to
the feeble-minded." The Pivot of Civilization, p102
 "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3
 Nazi T-4 Program
 California sterilization experiment by Dr. Paul Popenoe- 1933
 Gave the Nazis important information for their eugenics programs
 ―A Plan for Peace‖ by Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, Apr 1932, pp.107-8
 to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade
of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that
objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
 to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation
or sterilization.
 to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons
where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period
of their entire lives.

Today’s IssuesAbortion
 Legislation
 1973, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton
 Roe v. Wade ended almost all legal protection for unborn children
 It divided pregnancy into three "trimesters‖
 The first trimester was a matter to be decided by the woman
and her physician
 The second trimester, the states could pass laws to protect
the woman during an abortion
 The states could restrict or even ban abortion in the third
trimester unless the abortion was necessary to protect the life
or health of the woman
 Under Doe v. Bolton, however, health is defined, and the
definition is so broad that abortion is effectively legal until birth—
partial birth abortion
 Justice William Rehnquist (later the Chief Justice) and
Justice Byron White dissented. Justice White called the rulings
"an exercise of raw judicial power.‖
 Decisions Based on Deceit
 Eugenics in Roe v. Wade

 The 1973 Supreme Court decisions that ended all legal protection
of unborn children were based on eugenics
 Buck v. Bell, the 1927 case that opened the floodgates for
sterilizing people
 the Court stated, the right to privacy is not absolute; it can be
limited in some cases, such as vaccination and sterilization
 The abortion decisions were written by Justice Harry Blackmun
 Influenced by Glanville Williams, who taught law at
Cambridge University, was a member of the Eugenics Society
 Blackmun chose to discuss the history of abortion law
 The Hippocratic Oath and Christian Use of It
 The Hippocratic Oath is a stumbling block for historians who want
to argue that only Christians oppose abortion
 the whole idea of humanity accumulating over time, from zero
person at conception through various levels of value in each
trimester up to 100% person at birth, is eugenics
 Eugenics devalues humans by rating people on a sliding scale

 Roe v. Wade reflects a belief in the idea that each individual passes
through developmental stages that imitate evolution

Zygote

8 cell division

Blastocyst
4 week embryo

 The 1973 decisions on abortion reflect the idea that size and weight and
complexity — and value and rights — all accumulate gradually

 Present day with the issue of abortion
 AP article - Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy
 Sat Jan 24, 4:12 am ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush
administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform
abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has
bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
 He said the ban was unnecessarily broad and undermined family
planning in developing countries
 His action came one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark
Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion
 Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population
Fund, said: "The president's actions send a strong message about his
leadership and his desire to support causes that will promote peace
and dignity, equality for women and girls and economic development in
the poorest regions of the world.‖

 Population Action International, an advocacy group, said that the
policy had "severely impacted" women's health and that the step "will
help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and
women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have
access to family planning."
 "President Obama not long ago told the American people that he
would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively
guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion
as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative
director of the National Right to Life Committee.
 Thursday April 16, 2009 Adult Stem Cells Used Successfully to Cure
Diabetics, Heal Broken Jaw Bone
 However, the astonishingly positive results of the use of adult stem
cells to treat diabetes have received very little mainstream media
coverage, a fact that has been strongly criticized by conservative
bioethicist Wesley Smith.
 "The research was done in Brazil because doctors in the United
States were not interested in the approach.‖

 "The problem with embryonic stem cells is that embryonic stem cells
come from embryos - like all of us were made from embryos - and those
cells can become any cell in the body," Oz said. "But it's very hard to
control them, and so they can become cancer.‖
 "Several events reinforced the notion that embryonic stem cells, once
thought to hold the cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes, are
obsolete. The most sobering: a report from Israel published in PLoS
Medicine in late February that shows embryonic stem cells injected into
patients can cause disabling if not deadly tumors," Dr. Healy wrote.

Embryonic
Stem
Cells (ESC)

Today’s Issues- Feminism
 Feminism
 The person who brought the two movements together in an alliance that
has lasted to this day was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood.
 She was an effective leader in the war to inflict contraception,
sterilization and abortion on the world.
 She talked about the exaltation of joyful sex, but ended by trivializing
human sexuality into barnyard activity
 She talked about service to the poor, but she built an organization that
has killed millions and millions of people, tiny children who were executed
for the crime of being conceived in poverty.
She helped to lay the foundations for global population control, pitting
wealthy white nations against the rest of the world.

Today’s IssuesFeminism
 Woman and the New Race (New York: Brentano's
1920)

Poor men given signs by eugenicists

Today’s Issues- Feminism
Pivot of Civilization (New York: Brentano's
1922)

 She accepted the Malthusian theory that
overpopulation is the root of all evil. In her view,
a glut of humans was the root cause of
warfare, low wages, famine and plague, to
mention just a few.
 Women were the reason for ―hordes of
human beings -- human beings so plentiful as
to be cheap, and so cheap that ignorance was
their natural lot."
 "What is the goal of woman's upward
struggle?" she asked, then offered three
possible answers: "Is it voluntary motherhood?
Is it general freedom? Or is it the birth of a new
race?‖

Abortion and Feminism Quiz
1.

Who was the founder of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics?

2.

What was the purpose of the Negro Project?

3.

What Supreme Court case legalized abortion in the United States?
Partial-birth abortion?

4.

Who signed legislation for the U.S. to fund free abortions for the
Third World‘s poor in 2008?

5.

According to Margaret Sanger‘s views of feminism, who was
responsible for the ―hordes of human beings?‖

American Protection LeagueSnitch on Your Neighbor
The American Protective League was an American organization of private citizens
that worked with Federal law enforcement agencies during the World War I era to
identify suspected German sympathizers and to counteract the activities of
radicals, anarchists, anti-war activists, and left-wing labor and political organizations.
The APL was formed in 1917 by A. M. Briggs, a wealthy Chicago advertising
executive. At its zenith the APL claimed 250,000 dues-paying members in 600 cities.
It quickly established its national headquarters in Washington, D.C.
A private organization, the APL nevertheless had a semi-official status. It received
official approval from Attorney General Thomas Gregory. He authorized the APL to
carry on its letterhead the words "Organized with the Approval and Operating under
the Direction of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation.‖
Under this directive, the APL worked with the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) —
precursor to the FBI — which gathered information for U.S. District Attorneys.

American Protection LeagueSnitch on Your Neighbor (cont‘d)
APL members were accused of acting as vigilantes, allegedly violating the civil
liberties of American citizens, including so-called "anti-slacker raids" designed to
round up men who had not registered for the draft. The APL was also accused of
illegally detaining citizens associated with anarchist, labor, and pacifist movements.
An APL report on its actions in the Northwest for five months in 1918 showed that
among its 25 activities, its largest effort (some 10% of its activity), was in disrupting
the Industrial Workers of the World—IWW (the "Wobblies"), a radical labor union.
Some IWW members had been involved in violent labor disputes and bomb plots
against U.S. businessmen and government officials. In turn, the IWW alleged that
APL members burgled and vandalized IWW offices and harassed IWW members.
After the Armistice with Germany ended the war, Attorney General Gregory credited
the APL with the defeat of German spies and propaganda. He claimed that his
Department still required the APL's services as enemy nations sought to weaken
American resolve during the peace negotiations, especially as newly democratic
Germany sought kindlier treatment than its predecessor government might have
expected.

American Protection LeagueSnitch on Your Neighbor (cont‘d)
A. Mitchell Palmer succeeded Gregory as Attorney General on 5 March 1919.
Before assuming office, he had opposed the APL activities. One of Palmer's first
acts was to release 10,000 aliens of German ancestry who had been taken into
government custody during the war. He stopped accepting intelligence information
gathered by the APL. He also refused to share information in his APL-provided files
when Ohio Governor James M. Cox requested it. He called the APL materials
"gossip, hearsay information, conclusions, and inferences" and added that
"information of this character could not be used without danger of doing serious
wrong to individuals who were probably innocent.‖ In March 1919, when some in
Congress and the press were urging him to reinstate the Justice Department's
wartime relationship with the APL, he told reporters that "its operation in any
community constitutes a grave menace.‖ A few months after the Armistice, the
League officially disbanded.

Black Tom- The First Terrorist Attack
on America
The Black Tom explosion on July 30, 1916, in Jersey City, New Jersey, was an act
of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the
materiel from being used by the Allies in World War I.
As soon as war broke out in Europe, the United States began manufacturing
munitions and sharing the weapons with allied British, French, and Russian forces in
Europe. German agents in the United States reported the stockpiling and shipping of
weapons, and the German government took action. Because they could only openly
attack United States property in limited ways such as the sinking of merchant ships
carrying contraband munitions without provoking America to wage war, the German
government sent undercover agents to sabotage munitions operations. Numerous
fires were set at military supply manufacturing sites. Shipping lines and railroads
were also sometimes targets. Over 50 acts of sabotage were carried out on
American targets from 1914 to 1918. Of those 50, nearly 30 occurred in the New
York area alone. Not only did several factories and warehouses operate in the New
York area, but ports in and around New York were the major staging point for
shipping supplies to the western front in Europe.

on America (cont‘d)
After midnight, a series of small fires were discovered on the pier. Some guards
fled, fearing an explosion. Others attempted to fight the fires and eventually called the
Jersey City Fire Department.

At 2:08 a.m., the first and largest of the explosions took place. Fragments from the
explosion traveled long distances, some lodging in the Statue of Liberty and some in
the clock tower of The Jersey Journal building in Journal Square, over a mile
away, stopping the clock at 2:12 a.m. The explosion was the equivalent of an
earthquake measuring between 5.0 and 5.5 on the Richter scale and was felt as far
away as Philadelphia. Windows broke as far as 25 miles (40 km) away, including
thousands in lower Manhattan. Some window panes in Times Square were completely
shattered. The outer wall of Jersey City's City Hall was cracked and the Brooklyn
Bridge was shaken. People as far away as Maryland were awakened by what they
thought was an earthquake.
Two of the watchmen who had lit smudge pots to keep away mosquitoes on their
watch were immediately arrested. It soon became clear that the fires of the smudge
pots had not caused the fire and that the blast had not been an accident. It was traced
to a Slovak immigrant named Michael Kristoff, who had served in the U.S. Army, but
admitted to carrying suitcases for the Germans before America entered World War I.

on America (cont‘d)
According to him, two of the guards were German agents. It is likely that the
bombing involved some of the techniques developed by a group of German agents
surrounding German ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, probably
using the pencil bombs developed by Captain Franz von Rintelen. Although
suspicion at the time fell solely on German saboteurs like Kurt Jahnke and his
assistant Lothar Witzke, still judged as "likely" responsible by some, later
investigations in the aftermath of the Annie Larsen affair unearthed links between the
Ghadar conspiracy and the Black Tom explosion Franz von Papen is known to have
also been involved in both.
Bottom Line:
The whole incident was covered up by President Wilson because the outrage by the
American public would have run counter to his presidential campaign slogan, ―He
kept us out of the war‖ and he wanted to be re-elected. He denied the incident and
blamed it on capitalists who did not do the right thing in safety and security.

Urban America
Science, Art, Philosophy, and the
Gilded Age
Evolution, pasteurization, microorganisms,
radiation, relativity, romanticism, and
realism

Scientific Discoveries of the Bible
Natural Selection

Charles Darwin, a 19th century English naturalist, argued that natural
selection guides evolutionary change. Darwin‘s contemporary Alfred
Russel Wallace, another English naturalist, stated a similar theory of
evolution independently of Darwin. The theory of natural selection is based
on the idea that living things are in constant competition for limited but
essential resources in their environments—such as food, places to hide,
and opportunities to breed. Accordingly, natural selection favors any trait
that helps an organism or its offspring to survive. For example, the daring
shown by birds in the place of a predator near the nest involves the risk of
death. Nonetheless, natural selection compensates the risk by increasing
the offspring‘s chances of survival.
In 1859, Darwin published his views in On the Origin of Species by Means
of Natural Selection, and a major controversy was immediately sparked
between theologians and scientists. Even scientists argued with each other
over how the traits Darwin thought were subject to natural selection could
be inherited. Ironically, an Austrian priest, Gregor Mendel, published
genetic principles in 1866 that could have settled the problem, but Mendel‘s
work was not appreciated until 1900.

Scientific Discoveries of the Bible
(cont‘d)
 Six Day Creation
 Gen 1: 11, 12, 21-25 (ten times reproduction is stated)
 Darwin‘s On the Origin of the Species dilemma
 "Why, if species have descended from other species by fine
graduation, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional
forms? Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species
being, as we see them, well defined?‖
 Questionable Testing- Piltdown Man
 I Cor 3:18-20; I Thess 2:13

The Bible vs. Evolution
 How did we come into existence?
 Explanations and terms
The Bible

Evolution

God witnessed Creation and recounted Darwin observed and theorized
Gen 1 & 2

Micro vs. macro evolution

Astrophysicist Hugh Ross’ account

Abiogenesis, DNA

Gen 6, 7 & 8

Phylogeny

1. Creation of the physical universe (space,

7. Production of small sea animals

time, matter, energy, galaxies, stars, planets,

8. Creation of sea mammals

etc.)

9. Creation of birds

2. Transformation of the earth‘s atmosphere

10. Making of land mammals (wild mammals,

from opaque to translucent.
3. Formation of a stable water cycle.
4. Establishment of continent(s) and ocean(s).
5. Production of plants on the continent(s).
6. Transformation of the atmosphere from
translucent to transparent (Sun, Moon, and stars
become visible).

domesticated mammals, and rodents)
11. Creation of mankind

 Where did life come from?

Phylogenetic Tree

Cladogram

 Scientists have never demonstrated how this first life

came into existence from non-life by an evolutionary
mechanism
 Abiogenesis proposal- proteins and nucleic acids evolved
first and then into life
 Michael Behe‘s book- Darwin’s Black Box
 ―There

is no publication in the scientific literature—in prestigious
journals, specialty journals, or books—that describes how molecular
evolution of any real, complex, biochemical system either did occur or even
might have occurred.
There are assertions that such evolution
occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or
calculations.‖

 Dinosaurs and the Bible
 The original Hebrew text words- tanniyn, behemowth,
livyathan
 Tanniyn- dragon, serpent, sea monster 1. dragon or dinosaur 2. sea

or river monster 3. serpent, venomous snake
 And God created great tanniyn, and every nephesh chaiah that creeps, which the

mayim brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind: and God saw that [it was] good. - Gen 1:21
When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt
say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a
tanniyn. - Ex 7:9
For elohiym [is] my melek of old, working yĕshuwah (salvation) in the midst of the
erets (earth). Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of
the tanniyn in the mayim. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and]
gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. Thou didst cleave
the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. The day[is] thine, the laila
(night) also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the aur (light) and the shemesh (sun). Psa 74:12-16


 1822, Mary Ann Mantell correctly identified a strange bone as

having belonged to a large unknown reptile. Her husband
later named the creature ―Iguanodon.‖
 Sir Richard Owen articulated the term "dinosaur" for a new
order of animals in 1841 (deino = terrible; sauros = lizard).

 Behemowth- perhaps an extinct dinosaur 1. a Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, exact

meaning unknown. Some translate as elephant or hippopotamus but from the
description in Job 40:15-24, this is patently absurd.
 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his
strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail
like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones [are as]
strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron. He [is] the chief of the ways
of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].  Surely the
mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.  He lieth under
the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.  The shady trees cover him [with]
their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.  Behold, he drinketh up a
river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He
taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares. Job 40:15-24 KJV
 The juniper-like tree most likely referred to is the famous well-known species
called "Cedrus libani", or "cedar-of-Lebanon," a beautiful and stately tree that
grows in the Middle East. These trees can be quite large. The tree can attain
heights greater than 40 meters with a diameter greater than 3 meters.
 The word here rendered navel means properly firm, hard, tough, and in the plural
form, which occurs here, means the firm, or tough parts of the belly. It is not used
to denote the navel in any place in the Bible, and should not have been rendered
so here. AS, NAS, and NIT renders it muscles.

 Livyathan- leviathan, sea monster, dragon 1. large aquatic animal 2.

perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown. Some
think this to be a crocodile but from the description in Job 41 this is patently
absurd. It appears to be a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as
the bomardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great
sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be
a real fire breathing dragon.
Job 41
 There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond
number living things both large and small. There the ships go to and
fro, and the leviathan, which you formed to frolic there. Ps 104:25, 26
 In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and
powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling
serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea. Is 27:1



Plesiosaurus picture and fossil

Kronosaurus and
fossil

 German chemist Dr. Schilknecht first found that the

bombardier beetle mixes two potentially dangerous
chemicals, hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide
(yes, basically the stuff in brown bottles at your local
market), which should immediately result in a very
violent explosion.

Ankylosaurs:
The nasal passages in armored
dinosaurs were found to be
convoluted and complex, and
didn’t funnel directly to the lungs
or air pockets.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/fulltext/121483993/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Louis Pasteur & Germ Theory
Beliefs about disease in19th
Century
 People knew there was a link between dirt and

disease, but could not explain the link.
 People explained disease as seeds, bad seeds, in
the air known as miasma.
 1850s &1860s breakthrough in the cause of disease.

Pasteurization
In 1854, Louis Pasteur became professor of chemistry and dean of the
school of science (Faculté des Sciences) at the University of Lille.
Hearing of Pasteur‘s ability, a local distiller came to him for help in
controlling the process of making alcohol by fermenting beet sugar.
Pasteur saw that fermentation was not a simple chemical reaction but took
place only in the presence of living organisms. He learned that
fermentation, putrefaction, infection, and souring are caused by germs, or
microbes.
Pasteur published his first paper on the formation of lactic acid and its
function in souring milk in 1857. Further studies developed the valuable
technique of pasteurization. The same year, he was appointed manager
and director of scientific studies as his old school, the Ecole Normale
Superieure. During the next several years, he extended his studies into
germ theory. He spent much time proving to doubting scientists that
germs do not originate spontaneously in matter but enter from the outside.

Step 1: Discovery of Microorganisms
 Anthony Van

Leeuwenhoek made
one of the earliest
microscopes.
 Discovered microorganisms which he
called animalcules.
 Microscopes not as
good as today.

Step 2: Improved microscopes
 1800s purer glass

produced = better
lenses for
microscope.
 1830 Joseph Lister
develops a
microscope which
can magnify x1000

Step 3: Louis Pasteur‘s germ
theory
 Old Theory: spontaneous generation
 micro-organisms are the result of decaying matter.

 New Theory: germ theory
 micro-organisms cause decaying matter.

 Pasteur showed you could kill the micro-organisms

by applying heat - PASTEURIZATION.

Step 4: Germ theory vs
spontaneous generation
 Pasteur now had to

prove his theory.
 In competition with
French scientist
Pouchet.
 Conducted an
experiment showing that
microbes in the air
caused decay.
 1861 published his
‗germ theory‘

Step 5: Linking micro-organisms
to disease
 Pasteur showed micro-organisms made wine and

beer go bad.
 Could germs cause disease?
 Another experiment!
 Proved that a micro-organism was causing disease

in silk worms.

Step 6: Proving the link between
bacteria and human disease.
 Pasteur never

showed the link
between bacteria
and human
disease.
 This was left to
Robert Koch

Radiation and Relativity
Marie was born Manya Sklodwska in Warsaw, Poland, on 7 Nov 1867. She took
up her father‘s interest in mathematics and physics; and after her early schooling,
she went to Paris where she met Pierre Curie in 1894. They married on 25 Jul
1895, and began a scientific partnership that soon earned them international fame.
In 1898, the Curies announced the discovery of the chemical elements polonium
and radium. In 1903, the Curies and Henri Becquerel shared the Nobel prize for
physics for their discovery of radioactivity. On 19 Apr 1906, Pierre was struck by a
horse-drawn carriage and killed. Marie carried on with her scientific work and
became the first woman ever appointed to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1911, she
was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry for isolating pure radium. She died of
leukemia, caused by exposure to radiation during her work on 4 Jul 1934.

Albert Einstein‘s special theory of relativity challenged all conventional ideas about
time. One of the cornerstones of this theory is that the speed of light is the same
for all observers. A consequence of this rule is that time is not constant: clocks
run at different rates for different observers depending on the relative motion of the
clocks and observers. For example, it appears to an observer with a clock at rest

Radiation and Relativity (cont‘d)
on the surface of the Earth that the clock in a spaceship passing by at high speed
runs slower than the stationary, Earthbound clock. Likewise, the observer on the
spaceship sees the Earthbound clock running slower. This effect is called time
dilation.
Einstein‘s general theory of relativity predicted that clocks run slower in the
presence of a gravitational field. Thus a clock in space runs faster than an
identical clock on Earth, where gravity is stronger. Both of Einstein‘s predictions
concerning time dilation have been experimentally confirmed. Today scientists no
longer consider time as an independent, constant entity but as one aspect of an
interdependent space-time continuum. They know that the time measured by a
clock depends on where the clock is and how fast it is moving in relation to the
observer.

The Age of Idealism (1775-1850)
There were three phases of German literature in the late 18th century and the first
half of the 19th century.
They were Storm and Stress (Sturm und Drang),
classicism, and romanticism. Each emphasized idealism rather than realism.
Writers of the Storm and Stress period were interested in the ideals of friendship,
freedom, and the fatherland. The intellectual leader of this brief phase was
Johann Herder. His insights about literature, architecture, and cultural evolution
influenced not only his own generation but also the followers of classicism and
the advocates of romanticism who came after him.
The foremost representatives of Storm and Stress were Johann Schiller and
Johann Göthe. For them, the movement served only as the first step in their
development into the chief writers of German classical idealism. Schiller
produced a series of plays expressing the ethical and intellectual values of the
age. They marked him as one of the finest German dramatists.
Göthe became the greatest writer in German literature. He produced enduring
dramatic monuments to German classicism and humanism in Iphigenia in Taurus

The Age of Idealism (1775-1850)
(cont‘d)
and Torquato Tasso. His Wilhelm Meister books left an impression upon the later
history of the German novel. Faust, a great poetic drama, examines the problem
of good and evil.
German romanticism sprang from foreign as well as native roots. It rejected
some of the ideals of classicism and retained others of Storm and Stress.
Emphasizing individualism, it explored the subconscious and the unconscious.
Some of the romanticists were merely critics, but others were essentially creators,
especially of lyric poems and short stories. A number of writers, such as the
Grimm brothers, collected popular poetry and tales. Two of the latest and
greatest romanticists were Eduard Morike and Heinrich Heine.

Artists of the Romantic Movement
Poets, Novelists, Story-Tellers
Charlotte Brontë (English, 1816-1855) Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë (English, 1818-1848) Wuthering Heights
Lord Byron (English, 1788-1824) Don Juan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English, 1772-1834) Kublai Khan, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Alexandre Dumas (French, 1802-1870) Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers, Man in the
Iron Mask
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe (German, 1749-1832)
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (German, 1785-1863, 1786-1859)
Victor Hugo (French, 1802-1885) Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, political activist
John Keats (English, 1795-1821) Ode to a Grecian Urn, Hyperion
Walter Scott (Scottish, 1771-1832) Rob Roy
Mary Shelley (English, 1797-1851) Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Englsh, 1792-1822) Prometheus Unbound (Takeoff on Greek tragedyAeschylus‘ Prometheus Bound)
Madame de Staël (French, 1766-1817) Jane Gray, Rousseau, Delphins (Political activist with
Rousseau, and Montesquieu against Bourbons and
Napoléon)
William Wordsworth (English, 1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads (wrote with Coleridge and uses Rime
of the Ancient Mariner as the introduction to Lyrical
Ballads)

Trends in the Arts in the Late 1800s
Painting
Many artists of the late 1800‘s experimented with making their work more abstract and less related to
real objects.

Impressionism

Impressionism painters experimented with showing their impression of
an object, rather than making a realistic representation. The artists
focused on light and color, and tried to capture a scene as it might have
appeared at a glance.

Post-impressionism The post-impressionists experimented with vivid colors and distorted
images.

Expressionism
Cubism

The expressionists looked for ways to express intense emotion in their
work.
The cubists painted natural shapes as geometrical forms.

Music
Musicians of the late 1800‘s followed trends set by Romantics and nationalistic composers. The music
dramas of Richard Wagner influenced later composers. Some composers of the early 1900‘s tried to
create in music what the impressionist painters were attempting on canvas.

Literature and Drama

Urban America Science, Art, and
Philosophy Graphic Organizer
Art

Urban
America

Science

Philosophy

Urban America Science, Art, and
Philosophy Quiz
Name a writer, a painter, and a composer of the
romantic period.
2. Evolution is a philosophical theory used by
progressives that Charles Darwin wrote about in
what book? What Austrian monk disproved
evolution through genetics?
1.

3.

Name a scientist and his contribution to
microbiology?

4.

What Polish chemists discovered the properties of
radiation?

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