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. With David Lindberg, he has co-edited two anthologies on the relationship between religion and science. Also with Lindberg, he is currently editing the 8-volume Cambridge History of Science.

Numbers is an eminent figure in the history of science and religion and an authority on the historical significance of creationism and "creation science". His book The Creationists documents the creationist movement and is considered as possibly the most definitive history of anti-evolutionism. Numbers is in the rare position of being widely respected by both scientists and creationists.^[1]

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• 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.

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• Academic homepage
• PBS Evolution articles
• Interview with Science & Theology News
• Brief treatise on the history of creationism
• interview in Salon
• Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science
• Salon.com interview