CREATIONISM IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA - A 10-VOLUME ANTHOLOGY OF DOCUMENTS, 1903-1961 - NUMBERS,RL

The author surveys and reviews the ten-volume reprint anthology Creati onism in Twentieth-Century America. The editor, Ronald L. Numbers, pla ces special emphasis on the Adventist roots of creationism In the work . of George McCready Price and provides the documentation to trace the rise of antievolutionist thinking and its ''evolution'' into the ''sc ientific creationism'' of the 1960s. The author suggests that Numbers underplays the role of dispensationalism In the shaping of antievoluti onist thinking.