Judiciously assessing the facts, Numbers refutes a host of widespread misconceptions: about the impact of Darwin''s work on the religious ideas of scientists, about the character of the issues that exercised scientists of the immediate post-Darwin generation, about the Scopes trial of 1925 and its consequences for American schools, and about the regional and denominational distribution of pro- and anti-evolutionary sentiments.
Displaying the expertise that has made Numbers one of the most respected historians of his generation, Darwinism Comes to America provides a much-needed historical perspective on today''s quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
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