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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Darwinism Comes to America. By Ronald L. Numbers. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 216 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-674-19311-3. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-674-19312-1.)

This book presents six informative, well-researched essays about the historical background of the evolution-creationism debate in America. Ronald L. Numbers first seeks to determine how the original eighty naturalists elected to the National Academy of Sciences between 1863 and 1890 felt: fifty-one of the sixty whose views can be determined were evolutionists; the remaining nine were "nonevolutionary creationists," a term first used by Charles Darwin to refer to views that had little to do with interpreting the first chapter of Genesis. Creationist or no, the majority of the academy members were, and remained, practicing Christians. (An appendix usefully profiles each of them.) . . .

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