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A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Pennsylvania that put evolution on trial. Journalist Gordy Slack offers a riveting, personal, and often amusing first-hand account that details six weeks of some of the most widely ranging, fascinating, and just plain surreal testimony in U.S. legal history--a battle between hard science and religious conservatives wishing to promote a new version of creationism in schools. During the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Areas School Board trial, the members of the local school board defended their decision to require teachers to present intelligent design alongside evolution as an explanation for the origins and diversity of life on earth. The trial revealed much more than a disagreement about how to approach science education. It showed two essentially different and conflicting views of the world and the lengths some people will go to promote their own. The ruling by George W. Bush-appointed Jud...
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Dover Area School District (Dover, Pa.), Evolution (Biology), Intelligent design (Teleology), Kitzmiller, Tammy, Law and legislation, Nonfiction, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Study and teaching, Tammy Kitzmiller, Trials, litigation, Trials, litigation, etc, Religious Philosophies, Biological Evolution, Creationism, Education, united states, history, Religion and science, Trials, united states, Intelligent design (teleology)Places
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Battle over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
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The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
May 18, 2007, Jossey-Bass
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The battle over the meaning of everything: evolution, intelligent design, and a school board in Dover, PA
2007, Jossey-Bass, Jossey-Bass/Wiley
in English
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The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything
2007, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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0470181419 9780470181416
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