"If you can bring me one student whose faith I have injured in Mormonism, I will bring you five that you, through your narrowness, have driven out of the church."
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Response to BYU president George H. Brimhall, quoted in: Bergera, Gary James (1993). "The 1911 Evolution Controversy at Brigham Young University". In: Sessions, Gene A.; Oberg, Craig J. The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism. Signature Books. p. 29
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Ralph Vary Chamberlin
Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879 – October 31, 1967) was a biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Utah. He described over 4,000 new species, specializing in spiders, centipedes, and millipedes, but he also wrote on topics such as anthropology, language, religion, and history. A Mormon, he was in a notable modernism controversy at Brigham Young University: one of four professors whose teachings of evolution and higher criticism were seen as in conflicting with the views of the The Chur
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