Talk:Ronald Numbers

Hallo
I made a interwiki-link to the german wikipedia for this article. I translated this biographic notes to german and wrote an article about Numbers book "The Creationists": de:The Creationists. If there is any interest in a translation of this article into english please contact me preferably at my german user-page. Greetings -- Andreas Werle 22:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Former SDA
While this may well be true (I don't know his official membership status), the article is included in that category. For that to be proper, proof should be mentioned (and referenced) in the article. -- Fyslee (collaborate) 09:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Former Seventh-day Adventists
What is know his religious stance?--Vojvodaeist 15:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * He now describes himself as an agnostic. Colin MacLaurin (talk) 11:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Reliability of BloggingHeads
A primary source video interview with the person to whom this biographical Wikipedia entry refers is a reputable source on said person. Ron Numbers is a reputable source on Ron Numbers.


 * Blogging Heads is the video equivalent of a podcast. It is not a WP:RS. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 04:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia's own guidelines: 'Self-published or questionable sources may be used as sources of information ABOUT THEMSELVES,' Matter settled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SwinginDigs (talk • contribs) 22:35, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Number's agnosticism
Steve Dufour just made this edit on the page and provided a very reasonable justification for doing so. However, I think we need to emphasize that, although Numbers writes about the history of creationism, he is not a creationist himself anymore. --- The mere information that Numbers is an agnostic was inserted more than two years ago... and still, more than once, I've seen people read this page and later claim that "Numbers is a creationist." In essence, I want to avoid people reading this paragraph and getting the wrong idea. --Leinad-Z (talk) 18:19, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Unencyclopaedic, publicist style
Among other things the work debunks various hoary myths that have nothing to do with actual history: such that the medieval Christian Church suppressed science, or that... Can the style be corrected?--Adûnâi (talk) 22:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)