The Creationists – The Evolution of Scientific Creationism - Softcover

Numbers, Ronald L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520083938 ISBN 13: 9780520083936

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

Forty-seven percent of the American people, according to a 1991 Gallup poll, believe that God made man—as man is now—in a single act of creation, and within the last ten thousand years. Ronald L. Numbers chronicles the astonishing resurgence of this belief since the 1960s, as well as the creationist movement's tangled roots in the theologies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Adventists, and other religious groups.

Even more remarkable than Numbers's story of today's widespread rejection of the theory of evolution is the dramatic shift 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, and that the earth itself is not more than ten thousand years old. Numbers traces the evolution of scientific creationism and shows how the creationist movement challenges the very meaning of science.

About this title

About the Author

Ronald L. Numbers is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

From the Inside Flap

"For those interested in the background of the modern revival of creationism, whether evolutionists or creationists, this book is a rich mine of information and historical insights."Henry M. Morris, Institute for Creation Research

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520083938
• ISBN 13: 9780520083936
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 472