The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design

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Harvard University Press, 2006 - 606 ページ

In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as "intelligent design" makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this now classic account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. Expanded and updated to account for the appeal of intelligent design and the global spread of creationism, The Creationists offers a thorough, clear, and balanced overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.

Praised by both creationists and evolutionists for its comprehensiveness, the book meticulously traces the dramatic shift among Christian fundamentalists from acceptance of the earth's antiquity to the insistence of present-day scientific creationists that most fossils date back to Noah's flood and its aftermath. Focusing especially on the rise of this "flood geology," Ronald L. Numbers chronicles the remarkable resurgence of antievolutionism since the 1960s, as well as the creationist movement's tangled religious roots in the theologies of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Adventists, among others. His book offers valuable insight into the origins of various "creation science" think tanks and the people behind them. It also goes a long way toward explaining how creationism, until recently viewed as a "peculiarly American" phenomenon, has quietly but dynamically spread internationally--and found its expression outside Christianity in Judaism and Islam.

 

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Introduction to the Expanded Edition
1
Introduction
6
Creationism in the Age of Darwin
15
George Frederick Wright From Christian Darwinist to Fundamentalist
33
Creationism in the Fundamentalist Controversy
51
Scientific Creationists in the Age of Bryan
69
George McCready Price and the New Catastrophism
88
The Religion and Science Association
120
The Creation Research Society
239
Creation Science and Scientific Creationism
268
Deception and Discrimination
286
Creation Research Institutes
312
Creationism in the Churches
329
The Appeal of Creationism at Home and Abroad
351
Intelligent Design
373
Creationism Goes Global
399

The Deluge Geology Society
137
Evangelicals and Evolution in Great Britain
161
Evangelicals and Evolution in North America
180
John C Whitcomb Jr Henry M Morris and The Genesis Flood
208
Notes
433
Acknowledgments
570
Index
578
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Ronald L. Numbers was Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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