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The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition
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The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition
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by Ronald L. Numbers
Sales Rank : 256272
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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Expanded edition November 30, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674023390
ISBN-13: 978-0674023390
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Pious charlatans, firebrand demagogues and scientific cranks stalk the pages of this scholarly, thoroughgoing, at times plodding history of the modern revival of creationism. Unlike 19th-century creationists, who rejected Darwinian evolution but acknowledged that life on earth has spanned millions of years, today's creationists believe that God made woman and man in a single act of creation within the last 10,000 years. They draw inspiration for their beliefs from George McCready Price, a Seventh-day Adventist who in the 1920s pioneered "flood geology," which traces most fossils back to Noah's flood and its aftermath. Numbers, a professor of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, unravels the tangled religious roots of creationism. His evenhanded treatment incorporates a quietly devastating critique of the modern creationist movement and its efforts to influence school curricula. He reveals creationists to be a divided and contentious lot, squabbling fiercely with one another. Illustrated.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From The Washington Post
"A beautifully worked case study of the dynamics of people and the ideas that impel them. As an exposure of one of the most socially explosive and intellectually damaging movements of recent times, it is unquestionably a volume of major importance."
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