About Joseph Franklin Ewing
Lived 1905 – 1968 (aged 62–63). Joseph Franklin Ewing was a theologian.
J. Franklin Ewing (October 14, 1905 - May 21, 1968) was an American Catholic priest and anthropologist and director of research services at Fordham University.
Ewing accepted the science of evolution but argued that God had a direct and primary role in the process. Ewing was co-director of an archeological excavation at Ksar Akil in 1948 that unearthed a cranium from a 20,000 year old child that he named "Egbert".
Ewing became a faculty member at Fordham in 1949 as assistant professor of anthropology.
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American theologian and Catholic priest (1905-1968)
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