Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution good science? Is it a lie? Is it incompatible with faith? Did Charles Darwin really say man came from monkeys? Have scientists really detected "intelligent design"--evidence of a creator--in nature? Inside our DNA? Inside amazing molecular "machines" within our very cells? Or are those concepts nothing more than scientific fool s gold, tricks designed to sneak religious ideas into public school classrooms? What happens when a town school board decides to confront such questions head-on, thrusting its students, then an entire community, onto the front lines of America s culture wars? From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 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, the epic court case on teaching "intelligent design" it spawned, and the national struggle over what Americans believe about human origins.Told from the perspectives of all sides of the battle, Monkey Girl is about what happens when science and religion collide. The Washington Post - Christine Rosen Humes's book is a compelling account of that struggle, and likely not the last salvo in the battle between evolution and intelligent design.
Prologue: One Thing's for Sure, We Didn't Come from Any Monkey xiOriginsBalancing Act 3What Lies Beneath 16I'd Rather Take a Beating Than Back Down 35Darwin's Nemesis 63Class Acts 79Survival of the FittestBroken Watches 109The Watchmaker Returns 128The Waters of Kansas Part 146What Will We Tell the Children? 161Unnatural SelectionsSend Lawyers, Geeks, and Money 181Monkey Suit 201Sword and Shield, Shock and Awe 228Paleozoic Roadkill, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Bad Frog Beer 254Of Panders and People 279Under the Microscope, Deer in the Headlights 297Forty Days and Forty Nights 316Breathtaking Inanity 328Epilogue 339Notes 353Index 367
