Ronald Numbers

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Ronald L. Numbers (born 1942) is an American historian of science who received his Ph.D. in history of science from University of California, Berkeley in 1969. Currently he is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1989 to 1993 he was editor of Isis, an international journal of the history of science. He is an authority on the historical significance of creationism and "creation science", and his book The Creationists documents the creationist movement. With David Lindberg, he has co-edited two anthologies on the relationship between religion and science.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Creationists (New York: Knopf, 1992; paperback edition, University of California Press, 1993; expanded edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
• Darwinism Comes to America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
• Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1999), co-edited with John Stenhouse.

[edit] External links

• Academic homepage
• PBS Evolution articles
• Interview with Science & Theology News
• Brief treatise on the history of creationism
• interview in Salon