The battle over the meaning of everything

evolution, intelligent design, and a school board in Dover, PA

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The battle over the meaning of everything

evolution, intelligent design, and a school board in Dover, PA

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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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English
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228

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The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything
2007, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Table of Contents

The takeover
The train to Dover
The theory is not a fact
Assembling Goliath
Thomas More and ID lite
ID heavy and the wedge
Down by law
Search and replace
The varieties of materialistic experience
The Flagellar Fandango
Liars for Christ
The unraveling
The fortieth day
The People's Court and the Gospel according to John Jones
Afterword.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genre
Trials, litigation, etc.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
344.748/41077
Library of Congress
KF228.K589 S59 2007, KF228.K589S59 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
228

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17850839M
Internet Archive
battleovermeanin00slac_0
ISBN 13
9780787987862
LCCN
2007005825
OCLC/WorldCat
84903217
Library Thing
2739259
Goodreads
334515

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