Preadamites. Frontispiece to Alexander Winchell's 'Preadamites or a demonstration of the existence of men before Adamins. Chicago. S.C. Griggs and Co. London Trubner and co. 1880. Winchell was a theistic evolutionist who beleived that Adam in the bible was not related to other human races,shown here,who he considered 'preadamite'. Preadamites were those humans to have been created before Adam. Only the white caucasian could claim decent from biblical Adam. He lost his job at Syracuse as Geology Professor,not because of his racist views (they were not unusual at the time) but because he varied in this hypothesis from strict biblical teachings. The favoured biblical view were that these races were the dispersed sons of Cain | |
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