Saturday, August 5, 2006

Putting Faith in Science

Deborah Blum in On Wisconsin [6 pp. pdf]
More pragmatically, American textbooks were revised during the post-Sputnik race to the moon, with a science-first emphasis that was far more dogmatic about Darwinian science. Numbers [Ronald Numbers, a UW-Madison professor in the history of science and medicine] says the changes helped spark a new sense of alarm and a powerful us-against-them mentality in the Christian right.

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