author: ronald l numbers

The Warfare between Science & Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die

... Sociology, 221–22. 36. Peter Metcalf, Anthropology: The Basics (London ... ed. (Harlow, UK: Pearson, 2009), 18. 41. H. James Birx, “Evolution: Science ... 8th ed. (Boston: Pearson, 2012), 50. Antonio, “Materialism,” 1781. 51. Anthony Giddens ...

God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and Science

This landmark volume promises not only to silence the persistent rumors of war between Christianity and science, but also serve as the point of departure for new explorations of their relationship, Scholars and general readers alike will ...

The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue?

This book, which marks the one hundredth anniversary of The Terry Lecture Series, offers a unique perspective for anyone interested in the debate between science and religion in America. /DIV/DIV/DIV

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science

... Death of Nature , Carolyn Merchant revealed how the rise of a mechanistic worldview entailed the " death of nature . " Notions of nature as matter in motion served to weaken moral restrictions embedded in older cos- mologies that had ...

The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design

This edition offers an overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate. 'A beautifully worked case study of the dynamics of people and the ideas that impel them.

Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White

A Study of Ellen G. White Ronald L. Numbers. Illustrations. Abbreviations EGW Ellen G. White HR Health Reformer LLU-HR Heritage ix. Ellen G. White Frontispiece Ellen G. White and Elizabeth Bangs 46 Sylvester Graham 98 William A. Alcott 104 ...

Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet

... quotes the entire letter. A. G. Daniells to W. C. White, June 24, 1907. Ellen G. White to “Those Who Are Perplexed Regarding the Testimonies,” March 30, 1906. 37. Fleming H. Revell to “My dear Mr. Chadwick,” October 17, 1891. 38. 39.40 ...

Creationism in Europe

... Immanuel Velikovsky, Earth in Upheaval (New York: Doubleday, 1955). Other notable maverick catastrophists include the American college professor of history Charles H. Hapgood (Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth ...

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context

... São Paulo became the country's richest region, thanks to the revenues of coffee exports and the development of an incipient manufacturing industry, and competed with the national government in Rio de Janeiro for political leadership.14 ...

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health

... used these stories to discover meaning at their own patients ' bedsides.17 The homological relation between text and work helps explain the strikingly wide variety of subject matter and plot ... mystery which is beyond my com- prehension . " ...

Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States

... Philip, “Ambedkar now Buddhist,” Christian Century , December 19, 1956, 1493–1494; and “Thich Nhat Hanh,” The New Yorker , June 25, 1966, 21–23. 37 For example, see Jenny Philips, ed., Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind ...

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

... seven ages of man . In 1971 , in an after - dinner speech , Coulson offered an analysis in which he followed Shakespeare's lead and looked for periods in the history of what he called theoretical chemistry , and what we may call quantum ...

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

... Inherit the Wind (New York: Bantam, 1960), 58–59. 8. Ibid., 7, 64. Inherit the Wind uses sound- alike pseudonyms in naming the various participants in the Scopes trial. To avoid unnecessary confusion, the real names of persons are used ...

Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science

... The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009) The year 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the first edition of Charles Darwin's (1809–1882) On the Origin of Species (1859). Among the highlights of the celebrations were ...

Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science

... Seven Liberal Arts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971), esp. 21–25. 12. Stahl, Roman Science, 199; Wesley Stevens, “Marginalia in the Latin Euclid,” in Scientia in margine: Études sur les marginalia dans les manuscrits ...

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