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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests …
The Religion and Science Debate
Six acclaimed scholars—including a biologist, a sociologist, a historian, a philosopher, and a physicist—examine the evolution debate. Eighty-one years after America witnessed the …
The Warfare between Science and Religion
Why is the idea of conflict between science and religion so popular in the public imagination?The “conflict thesis”—the idea that an inevitable and irreconcilable conflict exists …
The Disappointed
Prophetess of Health
Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders in American history -- Ellen G. White, the enigmatic …
Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew
As past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History, Ronald L. Numbers is uniquely qualified to assess the historical relations …
Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
Despite the undeniable importance of anti-evolutionism in American cultural history, and the plethora of publications since the 1980s, few libraries have collected more than the …
Darwinism Comes to America
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 …
Science and Medicine in the Old South
With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum South. The fourteen essays in Science and Medicine in …
Wrestling with Nature
When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of …
Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of …
Early Creationist Journals
Originally published in 1995, Early Creationist Journals is the ninth volume in the Creationism in Twentieth-Century America series, reissued in 2021. The book is a concise primary …