Ronald Numbers is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the History
of Science department. He wrote _The Creationists_, which was quite good
and has written numerous books and articles on the YEC movement. He comes
from a Seventh Day Adventist background and so has a good understanding of
where YECs are coming from but does not vilify them (he doesn't pull any
punches either). I emailed him about the possibility of taking classes
from him (I was looking at UW-Madison for geology grad school) and he
seemed quite nice. Also the religious studies department at UW is supposed
to be good, which might be a nice resource for some relevant coursework.
My wife's parents know several evangelicals studying in that department
who attend their Evangelical Free church.
Also check out _Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective_, eds.
David Livingstone [a geographer], D.G. Hart [a historian/theologian], and
Mark Noll [a historian] (Oxford University Press, 1999). Amazon has a 2002
publication date listed so they may be reprinting it. You could probably
contact any of the contributors and they would be able to point you to
some programs and/or professors.
Also another alternative is to get your graduate degree in a field of
science and then write from that platform. I'm hoping to do some history
of science writing at some point (I was a geology and history major in
undergrad) and have chosen to get my Ph.D. in geology and then will go
from there.
Hope your search goes well. It should be interesting.
Joel
--- Glenn Morton <glenn.morton@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Go study under Ronald Numbers. Not sure where he is.
>
> glenn
>
> see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
> for lots of creation/evolution information
> anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
> personal stories of struggle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Wendee Holtcamp
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: PhD program
>
>
> Anyone have any insight as to what universities might have a PhD
> program
> that would fit what I'm looking for? Anyone have names of professors in
> related lines of study? Also, anyone familiar with Princeton which is
> where
> I'm very interested in going?
>
> What I want to study: I'd like to study, and eventually become a
> Professor
> in, the study of evolution-creation, essentially. I'd like to explore
> the
> history of creation-evolution conflicts, how and why religious people
> believe what they do, how people change beliefs, how people get lure
> dinto
> believing some very odd things and how these things can take over very
> large
> segments of society, and dangers of not being open to new thought.
> Obviously
> these are many things. I'm sure much is done on them previously, and I'm
> interested in breaking new ground.
>
> I'm not sure if this would fall into a PhD in Religion, Psychology (of
> Learning), History of Science, Evolutionary Biology, or some odd
> combination.
>
> Thanks for any insight, Wendee
>
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> Wendee Holtcamp -- wendee@greendzn.com
> Environmental Journalist ~~ www.greendzn.com
> Adjunct Instructor of Biology, Kingwood College
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