In early decades of the twentieth century, history was awaiting a new champion in the creationist movement. The call was answered by a hard- working farm boy with a penchant toward science. He obtained a good education and assumed leadership in the creation movement, becoming a science professor, prolific writer and speaker. He recommended the term baramin for the created kind and persistently promoted the concept of discontinuity as contrasted with evolutionary continuity. His scholarship was important inside and outside scientific communities.