Peanutbutterans, Is George Washington Carver you Messiah?

Answer 1

George Washington Carver had his own Messiah:

While George Washington Carver is most widely recognized for his scientific contributions regarding the peanut, he is also commonly recognized as a man of personal and guiding faith. God and science were not warring factions in the mind of George Washington Carver. While contemporary science may practice methodological naturalism, an approach which believes the universe to be unguided or chaotic, Carver reasoned that the God who created the universe also created the rules by which it was governed, Biblical creationism[47]. He was opposed to the scientific theory of evolution and believed the creation of the world to be the Biblical creation account from the book of Genesis verbatim. [48]He would testify on many occasions that his faith in God was the only mechanism by which he could effectively pursue and perform the art of science[49][50].

George Washington Carver found religion when he was ten years old. He heard about Sunday school from a white neighborhood boy while working in a barn. When he was told that they sang songs and prayed at Sunday school, he followed suit and prayed to God for the first time in the loft of the barn.[51] From this child-like beginning he matured in his faith by placing his understanding of God firmly in the Words of the Bible. [52][53] When he was still a young boy, his life expectancy was expected to be no more than 21 years. He used the diagnosis as an opportunity to exercise his trust in God and pushed forward. He lived well past his twenty-first birthday.[54] Throughout his career, he always found friendship and safety in the fellowship of his fellow believers. He relied on them excedingly when enduring harsh criticism from the scientific community and newsprint media regarding his research methodology. [55] [56].

His faith was foundational in how he approached life. He viewed faith in Jesus as a means to destroying both barriers of racial disharmony and social stratification.[57] For Dr. Carver, faith was an agent of change. It increased knowledge rather than competing against it. The greater his faith increased, the more her desired to learn. The more he learned, the greater his faith became.[58] In attempts to teach his wisdom to students, he defaulted first and foremost to the proclamation of Christ. He felt that knowledge of God through the Bible and salvation in Christ through the cross were paramount to what he could teach them pedagogically through numbers and formulas[59]. He was as concerned with their character development as he was with their intellectual development. He even compiled a list of eight cardinal virtues for his students to emulate and strive toward:

Be clean both inside and out.
Neither look up to the rich or down on the poor.
Lose, if need be, without squealing.
Win without bragging.
Always be considerate of women, children, and older people.
Be too brave to lie.
Be too generous to cheat.
Take your share of the world and let others take theirs.[60]
He also led a Bible class on Sundays while at Tuskegee, beginning in 1906, for several students at their request. In this class he would regularly tell the stories from the Bible by acting them out.[61] Unconventional in respect to both his scientific method and his ambition as a teacher, he inspired as much criticism as he did praise.[62] As a result, his words ring all the truer, "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."[63]

The legacy of his faith is included in many Christian book series for children and adults about great men and women of faith and the work they accomplished through their convictions respectively. One such series, the Sower series, includes his story along side such scientists as Isaac Newton, Samuel Morse, Johannes Kepler and the Wright brothers.[64] Other Christian literary references include "Man’s Slave, God’s Scientist," by David R. Collins and the Heroes of the Faith series' book "George Washington Carver: Inventor and Naturalist" by Sam Wellman. He is also included in Christian and homeschooling curriculum in the history units as in Heroes of History: George Washington Carver along with Abraham Lincoln, David Livingstone, and Eric Liddell[65].


Cultural references

Answer 2

Carver didn't invent peanut butter

Family Guy did an expose on all that.

Answer 3

Yes, and the co-Redemptor is Milton S. Hershey
Look! ==> http://www.thehersheycompany.com/about/history.asp

Answer 4

He is similar to the Christian moses.

Peanutbutter Bless You!

Answer 5

naw, but he ranks right up there with Bell, Edison and the 'in' group

Answer 6

This is the mocking and insulting that we are talking about.