World Christian Fundamentals Association
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World Christian Fundamentals Association, was an interdenominational organization founded in 1919 by the Baptist minister William Bell Riley of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was originally formed to launch "a new Protestantism" based upon premillennial interpretations of biblical prophesy, but soon turned its focus more towards anti-evolution.[1]
The group was the earliest and most influential of the Adamist leagues, but was crippled in 1924 when an accident laid up Riley for six months. In 1925, Riley was instrumental in calling lawyer and three-time Democratic presidential candidate and fundamentalist Christian William Jennings Bryan to act as counsel at the famous Scopes Trial. However, the annual conferences drew increasingly smaller crowds until 1930 when Riley resigned and the WCFA became a minute evangelical society.
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- ^ Numbers, Ronald (Nov 30, 2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition. Harvard University Press, pp 63-64. ISBN 0674023390.
