>The more general question is how many people really think about / care
>about origins questions at all (to any significant extent). I think this
>number is very small, in the order of perhaps 10,000 or so, US-wide. Others
>have told me that estimate is far too low.
I have read all the answers on this issue and haven't found any numbers
being cited. So I went back to my large collection of creationist works and
found the following numbers of printing runs. If someone who knows the real
publishing business can give an estimate of how many books are in an average
printing we can get real estimated, maybe factual, possibly true, numbers. :-)
book Date Published # printings as of Date
Genesis Flood 1961 18 1974
Twilight of Evolution 1963 23 1984
Darwin's Enigma 1984 4 editions 1988
Evolution and Christian Faith 1969 4 1971
Many Infallible Proofs 1974 6 1984
Evolution The challenge of the
Fossil Record 1985 2 1986
Evolution and the Modern
Christian 1967 12 1984
Man's origin, Man's Destiny 1968 2 1969
Conflict and Harmony in
Science and the Bible 1969 2 1971
Scientific Creationism 1974 9 1981
The Biblical Basis for
Modern Science 1984 9 1991
Science Speaks 1976 29 1982
What is Creation Science 1982 2 1983
The Collapse of Evolution 1983 8 1988
Somebody has been buying all these books. I would think that a printing is
more than 1 copy.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm