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Core Academy Archives Receives Scopes Donation

This year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial, where John Scopes was tried for teaching human evolution in violation of the Tennessee state law prohibiting such teachings in the public school.  After the trial concluded and Scopes was found guilty, his appeal to the Tennessee State Supreme Court resulted in his conviction…
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January 28, 2025 0

Core Academy Library Acquires “Incunable” Book

  Core Academy Library recently acquired a medieval commentary on Genesis originally printed in 1495.  The commentary comprises 112 pages covering Genesis 1-49, removed from a larger 968-page commentary volume covering the Old Testament books through Esther.  The comments were written in Latin by three medieval scholars: Nicholas of Lyra, a fourteenth century Franciscan teacher,…
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August 31, 2021 0

Introducing Our New Collection of Frank Marsh Papers

  The Core Academy Archives recently received a new donation of papers from the late Frank Marsh (1899-1992).  Marsh was a pioneer in creationist biology and helped to systematize the notion of the “created kind” throughout the twentieth century.  His 1944 book Evolution, Creation, and Science was cited in Whitcomb and Morris’s The Genesis Flood and had a…
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August 25, 2021 0