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Article: Darwinism Comes to America.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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Darwinism Comes to America, by R. Numbers. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper).
Ronald Numbers is one of the world's leading historians of the relationship between science and religion. He is deservedly famous for an absolutely seminal discussion of the rise of American Fundamentalism and how and why it tried to provide a scientific background for its claims about the literal truth of Genesis (The Creationists, 1993). Any work by him on the relationship between American evangelical religion and its conflicts with science, especially between such religion and its conflicts with evolutionary thought, is ...