Faith Ignited
Immersive, real stories from history, seen through the lens of faith. Fact is often more surprising than fiction, and the listeners may find themselves surprised by what was left out of their history books.
Faith Ignited
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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%20thesis
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6078/pg6078-images.html
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poems-of-places-an-anthology-in-31-volumes/the-prayer-of-agassiz-3/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/18118
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_40/April_1892/Agassiz_at_Penikese
http://kids.ochristian.com/Biographies-for-Children/Louis-Agassiz.shtml
https://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/11-3-compare.html#google_vignette
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