Our History
CSM’s History
From the late 1890's, through to WW1 Darwinism was used in support of racism; and slavery was hung of the back of that belief. By the 1920’s evolutionary thinking was embedded into the political justification that Stalin and Hitler would use to justify their 'master race' view of politics; both were simply taking evolution to its natural conclusion.
The Creation Science Movement started in 1932, protesting the influence of Darwin’s theory on society. The prime movers were Douglas Dewar, a former barrister and Auditor General of the Indian Civil Service, and Captain Bernard Acworth, DSO. Sir Ambrose Fleming was also key early founding member. Acworth developed the Asdic sonar system (Who’s Who) while Fleming developed the electronic vacuum valve; the foundation of early electronics. Sir Ambrose Fleming presided at the first Creationist meeting in 1932, then known as the EPM at 21 Essex Gardens, The Strand, London, . The meeting was reported in The Times on February 12, 1935. and what he said then still stands for what the Creation Science Movement believes in today.
He declared that ‘of late years the Darwinian anthropology had been forced on public attention by numerous books in such a fashion as to create a belief that it was a certainly settled scientific truth. The fact that many eminent naturalists did not agree that Darwin’s theory of species had been established as true was generally repressed. If there had been no creation, there was no need to assume any Creator; the chief basis for all religion was taken away and morality reduced to mere human expediency. …. They said that the arguments of the Darwinian anthropologists were defective in logic and did not give the proof assumed.’ This was reported 90 years ago!
In those intervening years the evidence has continued to mount up, arguing that a Creator must have made planet Earth. There is a wealth of scientific evidence supporting Creation which these eminent men in the early 1930s could not have known about. Advances since made show that the belief in evolution is even less logical and devoid of fact than it was then. CSM declares that the doctrine of original sin is not based on myth or fable but rather on the solid foundation of the ‘lively oracles’ of the Lord God. CSM declares that the beginning of God’s Word may be trusted as well as all that follows.
Presidents of Evolution Protest Movement / Creation Science Movement
1932 – 1941: Sir Ambrose Fleming Inventor of the thermionic valve
1941 – 1946: Sir Charles Marston Industrialist & Biblical archaeologist
1946 – 1957: Mr Douglas Dewar Auditor General of India
1957 – 1962: Cpt Bernard Acworth. RN. Co-founder of EPM/CSM with Mr Dewar
1962 – 1979: Sir Cecil Wakeley President – Royal College of Surgeons
1979 – 1997: Professor Verna Wright
1998 – 2003: Baroness Rose of Kilvarock