R. L. Numbers. Alfred A. Knopf.
Today there exists much misunderstanding about the creation movement.
Fortunately, Ronald L. Numbers has produced an extremely useful work which goes a long way toward dispelling many of the commonly accepted myths. This imprecation is a form of psychological terrorism that would be inflicted upon schoolchildren if creationists had their way. The trouble with this definition is that almost none of the creationists discussed by Numbers believe much or even most of it. Numbers shows that many of the naturalists in the late 1800s were creationists in the broad sense in that they accepted God as the creator and also accepted some evolutionary change as do nearly all creationists involved in science today. Sometimes, as in the case of Wright, their beliefs apparently underwent radical change and were partly contradictory.