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George Washington Carver, The Bible & The Peanut


peanutsBorn a slave around JULY 12, 1864, George Washington Carver became a scientist of international renown. On January 21, 1921, Carver addressed the United States House Ways and Means Committee on behalf of the United Peanut Growers Association on the use of peanuts to improve Southern economy.

Initially given ten minutes to speak, the committee was so captivated, his time was extended. Explaining the many products derived from the peanut, including milk, mock beef and mock chicken, George Washington Carver stated: “If you go to the first chapter of Genesis, we can interpret very clearly, I think, what God intended when he said ‘Behold, I have given you every herb that bears seed. To you it shall be meat.’ This is what He means about it. It shall be meat. There is everything there to strengthen and nourish and keep the body alive and healthy.”

After nearly two hours, the chairman asked: “Dr. Carver, how did you learn all of these things?”

Carver answered: “From an old book”

“What book?” asked the Chairman.

Carver replied, “The Bible.”

The Chairman inquired, “Does the Bible tell about peanuts?”

“No, Sir” Dr. Carver replied, “It tells about the God who made the peanut. I asked Him to show me what to do with the peanut and He did.”



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  • Fr. John+

    While I am all for men subitting to the claims of Jesus the Messiah, the Kinsman Redeemer of Israel [Matt. 1:21- 'his people' - Matt. 15:24- only the lost sheep!- not everyone]- I therefore cannot let overt fallacy take the place of true history, or the false belief that Christianity is a ‘universal religion’. Neither are True. Both are falsehoods, masquerading as ‘truth.’

    As has been noted:”George Washington Carver and Peanut Butter. George Washington Carver was a black scientist at Tuskegee College in Alabama. While he was a competent educator and would rightly be considered a giant among black scientists, most of what is now attributed to him are fabrications. While Carver did take out a large number of patents, they were all just his own processes for making things that already existed. None of Carver’s patents ever became a commercial success.

    The claim that Carver invented peanut butter is possibly the oldest black history myth in America and one of the easiest to disprove. It would take anyone a quick search on Google to disprove it and for that reason black history mythologists have moved away from the peanut butter myth over the past few years and begun claiming that other patents for processes filed by Carver are in fact his inventions.
    The truth is that peanut butter was made in various forms in Central America hundreds of years before Carver was ever born. If anyone could be called the “inventor” of peanut butter it would be the Aztec, Mayans, or one of the other cultures in that region. Several patents for commercial peanut butter making processes had already been filed long before Carver first experimented with a peanut.
    Numerous commercially successful peanut butter making patents were filed by white Americans and at least one white Canadian in the 1880′s and 1890′s. One of the most important was by J.H. Kellog in 1897. J.H. Kellog has a cereal company named after him today. Carver filed his patent about ten years later and his process was never used in the commercial industry.”
    Council of Conservative Citizens- http://cofcc.org/2012/02/black-history-month-myth-2/
    And I’m going to state it right now. “Racism” was a word invented by a jewish communist to deflect criticism from the Russian Christian populace, to halt any criticism of the takeover of a Christian land by the Communists- most of whom in the early days, were jews.
    So, don’t throw the ‘r’ word at me. It won’t stick- much like Carver’s failed story about the PB.

  • http://www.facebook.com/james.m.foster.9 James Michael Foster

    That is awesome! (point made)

  • alio

    WOW! Now I know I have to get a good book about his life. Most of us have heard snippets about him, this brought tears to my eyes reading what this humble man whose 10 minutes turned into 2 hrs. because of his knowledge of what GOD says, not what man says. Beautiful.

  • m123s

    G.W.C. a great human; We have much to learn about life from this great, humble, man. He is in the same cemetary as my other hero-Booker T. Washington. Knowledge from The Book, to replace ignorance, and skills for the hands = an asset to oneself, the community, and the Nation.Clothes not important to Carver, who ask that instead of money for a burial suit, spend the money on students.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jblacckburnsr.1 Joseph Blacckburn Sr.

    There was a man of God!!!!. George Washington Carver:If he were here today and ran for president against Obama or anyone ,I would vote for him.>>Men like him had integrity,values,ethics and above all the SPIRITUAL MORALS OF GOD ALMIGHTY.He was not afraid for what he stood-for his FAITH IN GOD.I admire him as one of the greatest men in the USA history.Where are other men like him in this country?very few.Most talk,but do not walk>They talk with their mouths,but not with their hearts/Like the saying,”(white)Man talk with fork tongues.”/He who walks with the a wise man becomes wiser and he who walks with a fool gets harmed.” “The fool said in his heart there is no GOD.”Life is short and one day when you breathe your last breath and stand before God Almighty what will you say to Him or what will HE say to you?Better have the right answer”answer is=John 3:16.You intellectuals who have read all the man made books=have you read the BIBLE ONCE IN YOUR LIFE TIME?CHECK IT OUT BEFORE YOU CHECK OUT OF THIS WORLD AND NOT BE SURPRISED WHO IS WAITING FOR YOU THERE.GOD LOVES US/DO WE?

    • Ranger555

      Thank you, sir. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516859771 John Sweet

    All that will surely upset the liberals giving God the credit like that

  • http://www.facebook.com/bburt1 Bill Burt

    Peanuts and peanut butter are some of my all-time favorite foods. Moreover, peanuts are the basis of the “Plumpynut” formula that is being used world-wide to save malnourished children from starvation. God bless George Washington Carver!

  • garry williamson

    sorry for the misspellings old laptop with flakey keyboard

  • garry williamson

    Yes but he still had to sit at the back of the bu,s drink only from the colored water fountain and not sit at the whites only counter and if he went to a nice hotel he had to ente through the kitchen door not the front that was for whit folk. And when we remember that, then we realize just how much of a great man he truely was.
    PS I’m a white southern male, But I have always tried to look at history from both sides.

    • alio

      Garry, I was born a southerner, moved away, then moved back south, age 7-10 yrs and was appalled at the back of bus, separate water fountains, not allowed to eat where we did, etc. At that tender age, I always wanted to fight back for their rights. It disturbed me very much. I couldn’t understand why a black man would step off the curb to let us white girls pass. All my life that bothered me, but we moved back to Cali and very few blacks were around. There was one girl in my H.S. whom I befriended, and all these years later, I think of her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jodygodie Joe Davis

    Forget Martin Luther King. The greatest black man who ever lived was George Washington Carver. Where would the world be without his many uses for peanuts, especially peanut butter? Ask any mother.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PTIF6KGUK7QASUBRKKR5A6LM2Q Tod

    Every Herb that gives seed !!! That means God Likes Marijuana and that it’s good for us,and Yet The Big Brother Government tells us again,God’s Wrong !!! Who should We believe God or big Brother ??? Dr.Ron Paul 2012 For the Only Man running that will take back Our Freedoms !!!

    • FloridaJoel

      Hemp products are readily available for the nutrition of the body, not for poisoning the body with THC and all manner of other pollultants. God punishes those that defile the body.

    • Edward53

      Christians don’t smoke weed, Tod. Are you a hypocrite just like Ru Paul?

  • pearl87

    A great American. We could use more like him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mahopacjack Arthur Palm

    The Einstein of agriculture

  • http://twitter.com/glopatster Gloria P. Sterling

    He was a true believer and God made him a great man with much talent.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/HADKEKLJD7ZYKVIJXVPQG3EJGE major

    Excellent article William. Thank You.

  • agbjr

    George Washington Carver was and is a role model for ALL Americans however today’s youth are sadly ignorant of him. Unlike today’s “role models” he didn’t use foul language, he didn’t incite violence and racial unrest, he didn’t use drugs or travel with an entourage of gangsters and sluts … he was simply an American agriculturalist, scientist, educator and – this above all – a Christian.

    • exshuttleguy

      Perhaps our youth are not seeing enough God in us.

  • Dennis

    Who is wiser than God?

  • guest

    Good heavens, you couldn’t say that before congress today, it would be offensive.

    • Blair

      God help us!

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/HADKEKLJD7ZYKVIJXVPQG3EJGE major

      Yes you’re right, not only would it be offensive but one would have to tell the offended party how sorry one is for having mentioned God.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004027111771 Barbara Ashdown

    George Washington Carver is one of my greatest heroes. What a wonderful, God-loving man. I so appreciate this story. Thank you.