Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
by:
Edward Humes (author)
A 2005 court decision may have scuttled plans to teach intelligent design in the classrooms of one small Pennsylvania town, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes predicts that the battle is far from over. Reporting from the front lines of America's culture wars, a bitter arena of...
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A 2005 court decision may have scuttled plans to teach intelligent design in the classrooms of one small Pennsylvania town, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes predicts that the battle is far from over. Reporting from the front lines of America's culture wars, a bitter arena of mutual misconception and mistrust, Humes takes us behind the scenes of Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, showing how this high-profile lawsuit thrust the evolution debate raging in local schools, courts, churches, and town halls into the national spotlight. Written with unparalleled clarity, fairness, and compassion, this spellbinding account examines what happens when religion and science collide. Nonfiction narrative at its stellar best!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060885489 (0060885483)
Publish date: January 30th 2007
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 380
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Science,
Biology,
Journalism,
Education,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Evolution,
Skepticism
The argument between creationists and evolutionists was in the news recently after the debate between Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and Ken Ham, the Australian who runs the Creation Museum. The dispute is nothing new, though. Creationists and evolutionists have been butting heads since Darwin’s day. Ke...
I found this book to be good in the I-want-to-pull-my-hair-out, oh-why-are-people-so-stupid kind of way. Humes writes a thorough and well explained book about the battle between evolution and creationism (or intelligent design) and schools in Dover, Pennsylvania. He includes various other cases and ...