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| #1288577 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1998-11-15 | 1998-10-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.57 x6.13l,.71 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| First-rate historical analysis|By meadowreader|Numbers' fascinating and extremely well-researched book is the story of an ongoing religious tragedy, in which a small group of radical biblical literalists have managed, as one writer put it, to take a beautiful creation myth and ruin it. Their idea is that the Bible should be considered a book of scientific fact, a position that||[Darwinism Comes to America] offers major new insights for our understanding of how America responded to Darwin. (Peter J. Bowler Science)
Numbers's carefully researched study helps us understand the origin of the wide-ranging attitude
In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory," local school boards and state legislatures were still wrangling over the teaching of origins--and nearly half of all Americans polled believed in the recent special creation of the first humans. Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out by Darwin in On the Origin of Species? Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Ronald Numb...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Darwinism Comes to America | Ronald L. Numbers.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
