William Louis Poteat

William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), also known as "Doctor Billy", was a professor (c. 1880-1905) and then the seventh president (1905-1927) of Wake Forest College (today, Wake Forest University). Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational University in North Carolina, founded in 1834 A devout Christian, Poteat was noted for his progressive (see Progressive Era) views on evolution and race. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s eVolution is the third Album by eLDee, it was due to be released in 2008

Biography

Born in Caswell County, North Carolina to a noted Baptist, slave-owning family, Poteat went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest College (then located in Wake Forest, North Carolina) in 1877. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. Wake Forest is a town in Wake and Franklin counties in the US Shortly after graduating, he was hired by his alma mater as a natural science instructor. He taught himself the subject (with which he had little previous experience) and his studies led him to discover Darwinian concepts of natural selection and evolution. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Poteat reconciled the contradictions he found between these notions and his Christian outlook. His beliefs were not shared by many conservative Baptists, which led to controversy in the 1920s, by which time Poteat was president of the college. He survived attempts to remove him as president, and helped persuade members of the North Carolina General Assembly to defeat a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution (as other states had done; see Scopes Monkey Trial). The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U The " Scopes Trial " ( Scopes v State 152 Tenn 424 278 S

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