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concepts of natural selection and evolution. Poteat reconciled his scientific conclusions with a modernist or liberal form of
Christianity. His beliefs were not shared by more conservative Baptists, who tried to remove him. Poteat fought back and survived, and helped persuade the
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for many years. His brother Edwin McNeill Poteat was a minister and educator, serving as president of Furman
University from 1903 to 1918. William Louis Poteat went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest College (then located in
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