The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
by Slack, Gordy
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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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- Title
- The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA
- Author
- Slack, Gordy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Like New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0787987867
- ISBN 13
- 9780787987862
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2007-05-18
- Size
- 6x0x9
- LCCN
- 2007005825
- X weight
- 14 oz
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