Princeton Lectures in Religion and History

September 29, 2006: 4:30 p.m., 10 Guyot Hall.

“Intelligent Design: Revolutionary Science or Reactionary Religion?" a public lecture by Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin.

Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and a member of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for over three decades.  He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998), Disseminating Darwinism:  The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 1999), co-edited with John Stenhouse, When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003), co-edited with David Lindberg; and Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He is a past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History.