Numbers was a Seventh-day Adventist lecturer. He wrote the book Prophetess of Health, first published in 1976, about the relationship between church co-founder and prophetess Ellen G. White and the medical knowledge of her times.[1] The consequences for the church's understanding of her inspiration were highly controversial, and Numbers was removed from employment. As of 2008 he describes his religious views as "agnostic".[2]
Numbers is an eminent figure in the history of science and religion and an authority on the historical significance of creationism and "creation science". His book The Creationists documents the creationist movement and is considered as possibly the most definitive history of anti-evolutionism. Numbers is in the rare position of being widely respected by both scientists and creationists.[3]
Bibliography
The Creationists (New York: Knopf, 1992; paperback edition, University of California Press, 1993; expanded edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Darwinism Comes to America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1999), co-edited with John Stenhouse.
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