Dominick McCausland or Dominick M'Causland
LL.D.
Legum Doctor (Latin: “teacher of the laws”) (LL.D.) or, in English, Doctor of Laws, is a doctorate-level academic degree in law or an honorary degree, depending on the jurisdiction. The double “L” in the abbreviation refers to the early ...
QC (1806–1873) was an Irish
barrister and Christian author.
Career
A barrister by profession, McCausland obtained a BA in law at
Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
in 1835 further followed by a doctorate in 1859. He was later appointed as
Crown Prosecutor.
Biblical ethnology
McCausland's earliest publications advocate a form of
premillennialism. His argument about Biblical prophecy requires the Bible to be a literal historical narrative, and he realised that this was called into question by the difference between the time-scale of Creation in Genesis and the age of the earth as revealed by geology. His book ''Sermons in Stone'' advocates the view that the "days" of Genesis were not twenty-four-hour days but geological ages. McCausland credits
Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller (10 October 1802 – 23/24 December 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.
Life and work
Miller was born in Cromarty, the first of three children of Harriet Wright ('' ...
with this theory.
McCausland was an early proponent of
pre-adamism
The pre-Adamite hypothesis or pre-Adamism is the theological belief that humans (or intelligent yet non-human creatures) existed before the biblical character Adam. Pre-Adamism is therefore distinct from the conventional Abrahamic belief that Ada ...
. In 1864, McCausland published the first of two works on ethnology, ''Adam and the Adamite''. McCausland sought to harmonise scriptural accuracy with physical science. His argument was that the
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
refers almost exclusively to only one race, the "Adamic", or
Caucasian
Caucasian may refer to:
Anthropology
*Anything from the Caucasus region
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** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region
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Languages
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. Since his premise was to make sure that science and scripture were in agreement, McCausland understood that if
Adam were to be the considered "the progenitor of ''all mankind''" then the Biblical account of creation would be inaccurate. But if Adam were to be created as a separate race, superior to previous races, and in the image of God, then that would mean scripture and science were in harmony. McCausland's use of the term "Adamic race" would come to hold important significance in the
Christian Identity
Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or Aryan people and people of kindred blood, ...
movement.
To support his theory, McCausland wrote that prehistoric humans had lived before the period of Genesis and that the Hebrew words "
Adam" and "Ish," both conventionally translated as "Man," refer to separate and distinct human races. The "Adamite" was a special divine creation whose history was recorded in Genesis; all other races were supposedly incapable of higher thought or cultural development.
McCausland posited that the
Flood
A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...
only affected the area settled by the Adamite race. Since
Cain had been expelled from the area, the Cainites survived the Flood, continually moving eastward and ultimately settling China, where their knowledge and skill laid the foundation of Chinese civilization.
In his book ''The Builders of Babel'', McCausland writes that human civilisations evidenced by the ruins of Egypt and Mexico had been created by an extinct "
Hamitic
Hamites is the name formerly used for some Northern and Horn of Africa peoples in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races which was developed originally by Europeans in support of colonialism and slavery. T ...
race of Babel-builders." He further argues that
Jubal and
Tubal-cain
Tubal-cain or Tubalcain ( he, תּוּבַל קַיִן – ''Tūḇal Qayīn'') is a person mentioned in the Bible, in , known for being the first blacksmith. He is stated as the "forger of all instruments of bronze and iron". A descendant of C ...
had founded an
Antediluvian
The antediluvian (alternatively pre-diluvian or pre-flood) period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne. The narrative takes ...
civilization in Central Asia. It grew eastward to mix with Cain and the "pre-Adamite savages of China," where it was "stagnated by Mongolian blood."
Works
*''The Latter Days of the Jewish Church and Nation'' (1842)
*''The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse'' (1852)
*''Sermons in stone: or scripture confirmed by geology'' (1857)
*''Adam and the Adamite'' (1864)
*''Shinar'' (1867)
*''The Builders of Babel'' (1874)
See also
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Ethel Bristowe
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Laurence Waddell
Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, Order of the Bath, CB, Order of the Indian Empire, CIE, Linnean Society of London, F.L.S., Doctor of Laws, L.L.D, Master of Surgery, M.Ch., Indian Medical Service, I.M.S. Royal Anthropological Instit ...
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Alexander Winchell
Alexander Winchell (December 31, 1824, in North East, New York – February 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a United States geologist who contributed to this field mainly as an educator and a popular lecturer and author. His views on evol ...
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Christian Identity
Irish barristers
1806 births
1873 deaths