Darwinism Comes to America

Name: Darwinism Comes to America
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ISBN: 9780674193123

ISBN-10: 0674193121

ISBN-13: 9780674193123

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ronald L. Numbers

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In 1997, local school boards and state legislatures in the US were still wrangling over the teaching of origins, and nearly half of all Americans polled believed in the special creation of humans. Darwinism Comes to America examines why this should be.

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: Darwinism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design



Darwinism and the Dogma of Separate Creations: The Responses of American Naturalists to Evolution



Creating Creationism: Meaning and Used since the Age of Agassiz



Darwinism in the American South: From the Early 1860s to the Late 1920s



The Scopes Trial: History and Legend



"Sciences of Satanic Origin": Adventist Attitudes toward Evolutionary Biology and Geology



Creation, Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion: Holiness and Evolutionary Biology and Geology


Appendix: Naturalists in the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1900


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index