Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin.

Once again Ronald Numbers opens the story of evolutionary thought in America to a wide audience. He has the capacity to lead readers to unexpected conclusions and to demonstrate that many of our most cherished assumptions about the debate over science and religion, the reception of evolution, and the reading of the Bible in the light of science and science in the light of the Bible must be re-examined and rethought. In this volume he is especially sensitive to the thinking of figures who have long remained unexamined. To read Numbers's scholarship is to come to the most welcome if unexpected experiences of historical enlightenment.

• 1: Science and Christianity Among the People: A Vulgar History 2: Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian beliefs 3: Reading the Book of Nature through American Lenses 4: Experiencing Evolution: Psychological Responses to the Claims of Science and Religion 5: Charles Hodge and the Beauties and Deformities of Science 6: "The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time": William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher's Chronology 7: Science, Secularization, and Privatization: A Concluding Note