Dominick McCausland orDominick M'CauslandLL.D.QC (1806–1873) was an Irishbarrister and Christian author.
A barrister by profession, McCausland obtained a BA in law atTrinity College Dublin in 1835 further followed by a doctorate in 1859.[citation needed] He was later appointed asCrown Prosecutor.[1]: 103
McCausland's earliest publications advocate a form ofpremillennialism. His argument about Biblical prophecy requires the Bible to be a literal historical narrative, and he realised that this was called into question by the difference between the time-scale of Creation in Genesis and the age of the Earth as revealed by geology. His bookSermons in Stone advocates the view that the "days" of Genesis were not twenty-four-hour days but geological ages.[2]: 123 McCausland creditsHugh Miller with this theory.[3][4]
McCausland was an early proponent ofpre-adamism. In 1864, McCausland published the first of two works on ethnology,Adam and the Adamite. McCausland sought to harmonise scriptural accuracy with physical science.[1]: 103-104 His argument was that theBook of Genesis refers almost exclusively to only one race, the "Adamic", orCaucasian.[5]: 162 [6] Since his premise was to make sure that science and scripture were in agreement, McCausland understood that ifAdam were to be the considered "the progenitor ofall mankind" then the Biblical account of creation would be inaccurate. But if Adam were to be created as a separate race, superior to previous races, and in the image of God, then that would mean scripture and science were in harmony.[1]: 104 McCausland's use of the term "Adamic race" would come to hold important significance in theChristian Identity movement.[7]: 153
To support his theory, McCausland wrote that prehistoric humans had lived before the period of Genesis and that the Hebrew words "Adam" and "Ish," both conventionally translated as "Man," refer to separate and distinct human races.[8]: 164 The "Adamite" was a special divine creation whose history was recorded in Genesis; all other races were supposedly incapable of higher thought or cultural development.[7]: 154-155
McCausland posited that theFlood only affected the area settled by the Adamite race. SinceCain had been expelled from the area, the Cainites survived the Flood, continually moving eastward and ultimately settling China, where their knowledge and skill laid the foundation of Chinese civilization.[7]: 164
In his bookThe Builders of Babel, McCausland writes that human civilisations evidenced by the ruins of Egypt and Mexico had been created by an extinct "Hamitic race of Babel-builders."[9]: 172 He further argues thatJubal andTubal-cain had founded anAntediluvian civilization in Central Asia. It grew eastward to mix with Cain and the "pre-Adamite savages of China," where it was "stagnated by Mongolian blood."[9]: 173
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