[ James Clerk Maxwell was repeatedly invited to join the institute, including in writing in 1875, but turned down an invitation. [Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, "The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings", ISBN 1402161379, pp 311-312] George Gabriel Stokes was its president from 1886 until his death in 1903. [ [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Stokes.html George Gabriel Stokes] ] ]Prominent Canadian creationist (and long-standing institute member) George McCready Price, attended meetings regularly while living in London between 1924 and 1928, but his views failed to persuade the membership. [Numbers(2006) p162-163]
In 1927 it appointed prominent electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming as its president. Fleming's 1935 presidential address, on his views on anthropology and the Bible, provoked commentary from leading London newspapers and a lengthy reply from anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Keith. [Numbers(2006) pp164-165]
Current Organization
The Victoria Institute currently uses the working name 'Faith and Thought'. [ [http://www.faithandthought.org.uk/index.html Introduction] , Faith and Thought] Its current president is John T. Houghton. Its current vice-presidents include Malcolm Jeeves, Kenneth Kitchen, and Alan Ralph Millard. [ web cite |url=http://www.faithandthought.org.uk/ftoff.htm|title=Officers and Council on Faith and Thought Website |accessdate=2008-04-12 ]
ee also
*Creation Science Movement
*List of Christian thinkers in science
*Relationship between religion and science
Notes
References
* "Faith and Thought" (Victoria Institute), Paternoster Press, 1958-1988. Vol. 90, no. 1 (spring 1958)-v. 114, no. 2 (Oct. 1988).:Merged with: "Science and Faith", to form: "Science & Christian Belief".:Continues: "Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain" (1867-1957).
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=L5zX2jFtPUEC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom"] , Andrew Dickson White, D. Appleton & Company, 1896 ("a sort of festschrift to Cornell University" {page xi})
* Science & Christian Belief, Christians in Science (Great Britain), Victoria Institute (Great Britain), Paternoster Press, 1989
*cite book
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title = The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition
publisher = Harvard University Press
date=November 30, 2006
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pages = 624 pages
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isbn = 0674023390
External links
* [http://www.faithandthought.org.uk/ Official Faith and Thought Website]
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_jtvi-01.php "Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute" table of contents]
* [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell Quote of James Clerk Maxwell Turning down Invitation]
* [http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2004/PSCF9-04McNatt.pdf Research Results on James Clerk Maxwell and the Victoria Institute]
* [http://www.lucasianchair.org/19/stokes.html Biography mentioning G.G. Stokes's presidency]
* [http://www.cis.org.uk/magazine/issue1/SandCB_big_bang.shtml The BBC, the Victoria Institute, and the Theological Context for the Big Bang – Steady State Debate, Craig Sean McConnell, S&CB (2006), 18, 151-168.]
