Jerry Bergman
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“The Pygmies also deplored as superstitious nonsense the Negroes’ magico-religious figurines and other so-called fetishes. They would take an equally dim view of churchly huts adorned with doll-like statues of Jesus and Mary. This would be regarded as idol worship by the Ituri Forest Pygmies, who believe that the divine power of the universe cannot be confined within material bounds.”
― The Darwin Effect
― The Darwin Effect
“they believe the “Negro race” is less evolved than Caucasians, and less worthy as humans. The existence of Pygmies, evolutionists felt, made a lie of the Genesis teaching that all men are brothers, all descendants of Adam and Eve. What further proof did they need than a living, breathing, evolutionary link who was clearly not the equal of white men but was more than just a monkey?”
― The Darwin Effect
― The Darwin Effect
“To Verner, though, no contradiction existed: he was “equally drawn to evangelism and evolutionism, Livingstone and Darwin” (Bradford and Blume 1992, 70, 72). In short, the “huge gap between religion and science” did not concern Verner. He soon went to Africa to “satisfy his curiosity first hand about questions of natural history and human evolution” (Bradford and Blume 1992, 74). Verner concluded that the Pygmies were the “most primitive race of mankind” and were “almost as much at home in the trees as the monkeys” (1902a, 189–190).”
― The Darwin Effect
― The Darwin Effect
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