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Darwinism comes to America / Ronald L. Numbers.

By: Numbers, Ronald L
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998Description: 216 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674193121 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0674193113 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines | Theology, Doctrinal -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 231.7/652/0973 LOC classification: BT712 | .N85 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (P. [161]-205) and index.
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 South: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (P. [161]-205) and index.

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 South: 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.

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