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Article: Darwinism Comes to America.
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- Church History
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- September 1, 1999
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Darwinism Comes to America. By Ronald L. Numbers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 216 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.
The relationship of science and religion in American history has come under renewed scrutiny in the historiography of American religion. Where older studies often depicted the relationship in terms of conflict and warfare, more recently scholars have recast their accounts in terms of diverse interactions, specific divergencies, and numerous instances of mutual support. Well-known as a historian of science and as the author of an important study of modern creationism, Ronald L. Numbers believes that there is yet more to say ...