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40 days and 40 nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities on trial in Pennsylvania / Matthew Chapman.
Van Pelt Library KF228.K589 C43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Matthew, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitzmiller, Tammy--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Kitzmiller, Tammy.
- Dover Area School District (Dover, Pa.).
- Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--Law and legislation.
- Trials.
- Pennsylvania--Dover.
- Dover Area School District (Dover, Pa.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trials--Pennsylvania--Dover.
- Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--Law and legislation--Pennsylvania--Dover.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Scopes, John Thomas.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Forty days and forty nights
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Collins, [2007]
- Summary:
- In this story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, writer Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, a Republican judge rendered a surprising verdict in a case that pitted the teaching of intelligent design against the teaching of evolution. Taking place in a small Pennsylvania school district, the case had national repercussions. Chapman, the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, covered the trial from beginning to end. Through his encounters with the participants--creationists, preachers, teachers, scientists on both sides of the issue, lawyers, theologians, the judge, and the parents who resisted the fundamentalist proponents of intelligent design--Chapman tells a story of ordinary people doing battle in America over the place of religion and science in modern life.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Dramatis Personae xi
- Part 1 In the Beginning 1
- Genesis 3
- Early Days 14
- Bill and Alan 24
- Life on Board 29
- Miller Grinds It Up 34
- Other Primates 52
- The Teachers' Story 58
- The Audible Ping 70
- A Libertarian Buddhist Girl Scout Leader 78
- Pennock qua Pennock, Finches qua Finches 84
- Summertime 90
- Marilyn Monroe Is Alive and Well and Living in Dover 99
- John Haught and the Teapot of Wisdom 104
- The Panda Cometh 118
- The Smoking Gun 130
- Barbara Forrest and the Panda's Tale 138
- When You Open Your Eyes in Hell 150
- Kevin Fills the Gaps 156
- You Pay Your Nickel and You Go for a Ride 161
- Part 2 The New Testament of Science 165
- The Man from Bethlehem 167
- Moral Decay 198
- Sudden Disappearance, Sudden Emergence 206
- Buckingham 219
- The Reporters 227
- Bonsell and His Trinity of Loyal Women 234
- The Two Scotts 243
- The Genie Is Out of the Bottle 253
- Revelation 263.
- ISBN:
- 9780061179457
- 0061179450
- OCLC:
- 73928059
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