Ronald L. Numbers
Creation, Evolution, and the Boundaries of Science and Religion
RONALD L. NUMBERS is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and of Religious Studies and a member of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for over three decades. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003), coedited with David Lindberg; The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, new ed. (Harvard University Press, 2006); and Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (Oxford University Press, 2007). For five years (1989-1993) he edited Isis, the flagship journal of the history of science. He is writing Science and the Americans: A History (for Basic Books), editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and coediting, with David Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He is also editing Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths in Science and Religion (for Harvard University Press) and coediting, with John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion around the World (for Oxford University Press). A former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an effective member of the International Academy of the History of Science. He is a past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History. In 2005 he was elected to a four-year term as president of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology.