A History of the Watchtower’s Opposition to Organic Evolution
Jerry Bergman, Ph.D Originally published in the JW Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring, 1997 pp. 3-13. Introduction Creationism is a critically important doctrine in Watchtower theology. The basis of their theology is the belief that God created humans and all life and can recreate a person again in the resurrection. If evolution is true God is at best a bystander who is impotent or does not exist. The Watchtower has consistently opposed human evolution from their very beginning, and evolution of animals from the 1930’s on. The first booklet on the subject was published in 1912 (Russell 1912)…
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