The Quest For Evolution – Bruce Barton

Description: Most people assume that the concept of evolution began with Charles Darwin.  But Darwin merely popularized and provided a supposedly scientific explanation for evolution, an idea that has been around for a long time.  A thread of evolutionary thought may be traced back to the earliest recorded civilization. In this presentation we trace evolutionism back to its early beginnings and show how it influenced Greek philosophy, which in turn affected Western culture from the Renaissance down to the present, and became deeply rooted in our culture today.

Speaker: Bruce Barton has degrees in meteorology and theology, with studies in engineering and graduate work in atmospheric sciences. Mr. Barton was an instrumentation engineer in R&D for Weyerhaeuser Company until retirement. He has a broad background as a teacher and speaker to groups of all ages in a wide range of subjects including science and technology, aviation, and Bible topics, particularly apologetics. Bruce has been speaking on the Creation/Evolution controversy for over ten years, especially to homeschool groups. He continues to give seminars and lead field trips for them. Bruce also serves on the Board of Directors for CAPS.

Bruce’s web site is at monarch.nwcreation.net.

A few short video clips:

• By R.C. Sproul on Ideas Have Consequences.
• By Dr. Ravi Zacharias explains Consequences to Ideas.

Meeting Documents:

• Flyer
• Announcement
• AncientPhilosophies.pdf Handout
• MedievalPhilosophies.pdf Handout

Recordings of the lecture:

• Video recording of lecture on YouTube can be found here.
• Powerpoint slides used are here.
• Audio recording of lecture can be found here.
• Audio recording of Q&A can be found here.