Table of Contents

Introduction - Darwinism, creationism and intelligent design; Darwinism and the dogma of separate creations - the responses of American naturalists to evolution; creating creationism - meanings and uses since the age of Agassiz; Darwinism in the American Soth - from the early 1860s to the late 1920s; the scopes trial -history and legend; "sciences of Satanic origin" - adventist attitudes toward evolutionary biology and geology; creation, evolution and holy ghost religion - holiness and pentecostal responses to Darwinism; appendix - naturalists in the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1900.

About the Author

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Darwinism Comes to America] offers major new insights for our understanding of how America responded to Darwin.--Peter J. Bowler "Science "

In Darwin Comes to America, Ronald Numbers enriches our understanding of the origin debate by exploring the beliefs of a broader range of American scientists and religious sects than heretofore chronicled. Importantly, he extends the story into the late 1990s by including the repackaged anti-evolutionism of those championing "intellegent design."--Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

Numbers's carefully researched study helps us understand the origin of the wide-ranging attitudes towards creation and evolution found among conservative Christians today. Darwinism Comes to America is a worthy successor to The Creationists.--Eugenie C. Scott, National Center for Science Education

Ronald Numbers has provided an exceptionally informative overview of a fascinating episode in the history of ideas. He dissects Charles Darwin's impact on American thought with admirable scholary sophistication, and in the process he succeeds in resolving a host of issues that have been fervently debated by previous generations of intellectual historians.--Frank J. Sulloway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Born to Rebel and Freud: Biologist of the Mind (Harvard)