Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Creationists
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
- Author
- Ronald L. Numbers
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 532
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Numbers’ history of American creationism — how a young-earth position that was marginal even among fundamentalists in 1900 became the default by the 1980s, traced through the specific people and institutions that did it. A lineage study, written without polemic.
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025). The full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Evolution — the claim being argued against.
- Charles Darwin — the origin of the dispute.
- Religious Intellectualism — religion doing intellectual work, well or badly.
- Ideological Family Tree — the book is explicitly a genealogy of a position.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.