Monkey Girl Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

Name: Monkey Girl Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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ISBN: 9780060885496

ISBN-10: 0060885491

ISBN-13: 9780060885496

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Authors: Edward Humes

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What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution a lie or good science? Is it incompatible with faith? Have scientists really detected evidence of a creator in nature? From bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Monkey Girl takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town's school board decision to confront the controversy head-on thrust its students, then the entire community, onto the front lines of America's culture wars. Told from the perspectives of all sides of the battle, it is a…

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List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Edward Humes is a veteran journalist, contributing to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and has written numerous books including Baby E. R. and the bestselling Mississippi Mud, Mean Justice, and No Matter How Loud I Shout. A graduate of Hampshire College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, he lives in Southern California with his family.



Prologue: One Thing's for Sure, We Didn't Come from Any Monkey



Origins



Balancing Act



What Lies Beneath



I'd Rather Take a Beating Than Back Down



Darwin's Nemesis



Class Acts



Survival of the Fittest



Broken Watches



The Watchmaker Returns



The Waters of Kansas Part



What Will We Tell the Children?



Unnatural Selections



Send Lawyers, Geeks, and Money



Monkey Suit



Sword and Shield, Shock and Awe



Paleozoic Roadkill, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Bad Frog Beer



Of Panders and People



Under the Microscope, Deer in the Headlights



Forty Days and Forty Nights



Breathtaking Inanity


Epilogue


Notes


Index