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  • The Warfare between Science & Religion

    The Idea That Wouldn't Die

    Edited by Jeff Hardin, Ronald L Numbers, Ronald A. Binzley ...
    A "very welcome volume" of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion ( British Journal for the History of Science).The "conflict thesis"—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Religion and Science Debate

    Why Does It Continue?

    by Ronald L. Numbers, Kenneth R. Miller, Lawrence M. Krauss, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Wuthnow ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • When Science & Christianity Meet

    Edited by David C. Lindenberg, Ronald L. Numbers ...
    "A superb introduction to some of the most fascinating episodes in the long history of the relationship between science and Christianity" —James A. Wiseman, Catholic Historical Review"An outstanding volume." ― Science & Theology NewsThis book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving ... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew

    by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    As past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History, Ronald L. Numbers is uniquely qualified to assess the historical relations between science and Christianity. In this collection of his most recent essays, he moves beyond the clichés of conflict and harmony to explore the tangled web of historical interactions involving scientific and religious ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown

    by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    Series series Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
    First published in 1995. This is Volume 3 of the Creationism in Twenthieth-Century America anthology of documents from 1903 to 1961 and looks at antievolutionists in North Carolina and the work Arthur I. Brown. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers, Kostas Kampourakis ...
    A Guardian “Favourite Reads—as Chosen by Scientists” Selection“Tackles some of science’s most enduring misconceptions.”—DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton’s insight into the law of gravity—or did it really?Among the many myths debunked in this refreshingly irreverent book are the idea that alchemy was a superstitious pursuit, that Darwin put off publishing his theory of evolution for ... Read more

    $23.69 CAD

  • Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths.Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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

    Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten, Ronald L. Numbers, David N. Livingstone ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Science
    This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Science and Religion Around the World

    Edited by John Hedley Brooke, Ronald L. Numbers ...
    The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. But all too often the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience, with only passing reference to other traditions of both science and faith. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Selected Works of George McCready Price

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    Series series Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
    Originally published in 1995, The Selected Works of George McCready Price is the seventh volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume brings together the original writings and pamphlets of George McCready Price, a leading creationist of the early antievolution crusade of the 1920s. McCready Price labelled himself the ‘principal scientific authority ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Creation-Evolution Debates

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    Series series Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
    Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume comprises eight debates from the early 1920s and 1930s between prominent evolutionists and creationists of the time. The original sources detail debates that took place either orally or in print, as well as active debates between ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers ...
    Series series Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
    Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown is the third volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America. The volume brings together original sources from the prominent surgeon and creationist Arthur I. Brown. Brown discredited evolution as it was contrary to the ‘clear statements of scripture’ which he believed infallible, stating evolution instead to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD