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William Bell Riley (born March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA; died December 5, 1947 Minneapolis, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Greene County is a County located in the US state of Indiana, and determined by the U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. " After being educated at normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana, Riley received his teacher's certificate. Valparaiso (ˌvɑlpəˈreɪzoʊ is a city in Porter County, Indiana, U After teaching in county schools, he attended college in Hanover, Indiana, where he received an A. Hanover is a town in Hanover Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. B. degree in 1885. He served several Baptist churches in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, in addition to studying at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is located in Louisville Kentucky and is the flagship Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC

Riley began his ministry as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota and served there for forty-five years, and another five as pastor emeritus. Riley wrote a number of texts on Christian Evangelism and founded the Northwestern Bible Training School along with an Evangelical Seminary. Northwestern College is located in Roseville Minnesota, USA. It is a four-year Christian college accredited by the North Central

Theologically, Riley was a Baptist traditionalist who believed in the New Hampshire Confession of Faith of 1833, the most popular Baptist creed of the 19th century. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. In 1833, Baptists in the United States agreed upon a Confession of faith around which they could organize a missionary society under the Triennial Convention His first major work was an exposition of the Confession and in 1922 he tried to get the Northern Baptist Convention to adopt it as its binding statement of faith. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Northern Baptist Convention was founded in Washington DC on May 17, 1907.

Riley was the editor of The Christian Fundamentalist from 1891 to 1933. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1919 Riley founded the World Christian Fundamentals Association. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common World Christian Fundamentals Association was an interdenominational organization founded in 1919 by the Baptist minister William Bell Riley of the First Baptist Riley was president of the Minnesota Baptist State Convention in 1944-45. When Riley died in 1947, Billy Graham conducted the funeral services. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Franklin Graham Jr KBE (born November 7 1918 better known as Billy Graham, is an evangelist and an Evangelical Christian At the time of his death Northwestern Bible School was the second largest Bible School in the world with some 1,200 students enrolled. Northwestern College is located in Roseville Minnesota, USA. It is a four-year Christian college accredited by the North Central

Efforts against evolution

In 1923 Riley set up the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota, which blossomed the following year into the Anti-Evolution League of America (later run by T. T. Martin). Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Anti-Evolution League of America was an Adamist organization created in 1924 a year after William Bell Riley founded the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota T T Martin, in full Thomas Theodore Martin (born 1862 in Smith County Mississippi, died May 23, 1939) was an evangelist who became While the anti-evolution crusade is often thought of as a Southern phenomenon, two of its foremost leaders, Riley and John Roach Straton, were from Minneapolis and New York City respectively. Dr John Roach Straton (born April 6, 1875, Evansville Indiana; died October 29, 1929, Clifton Springs, New York In the early 1920s Riley promoted a vigorous anti-evolutionary campaign in the Northwest and it was Riley's World Christian Fundamentals Association that wired William Jennings Bryan urging him to act as counsel for the association in the Scopes Trial. World Christian Fundamentals Association was an interdenominational organization founded in 1919 by the Baptist minister William Bell Riley of the First Baptist For other persons of the same name see William Bryan and William Jennings. The " Scopes Trial " ( Scopes v State 152 Tenn 424 278 S [1]

Riley and Bryan tried to remove all teaching of evolution from public schools. One of the creationists in their movement, T. T. Martin claimed that German soldiers who killed Belgian and French children by giving them poisoned candy were angels compared to those who spread evolution ideas in schools. [2]

The main objection that Riley had to evolution was:

"The first and most important reason for its elimination is in the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation"[3]

Riley advocated a form of "Day-Age Creationism". Day-Age creationism, a type of Old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts found in Genesis. [1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Creationism in 20th-Century America, Ronald L. Numbers, Science 218 (5 November 1982): 538-544
  2. ^ T. T. Martin, Hell and the High School (Western Baptist Publishing Co. , Kansas City, Mo. 1923), pp. 164-165
  3. ^ W. B. Riley, Christian Fundamentals in School and Church 4, 5 (Apr. -June 1922)

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