Isbn: 9780787987862 - the battle over the meaning of everything: evolution, intelligent design, and a school board in dover, pa (6 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 240 pages. A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Penns ylvania that put evolution on trial.Journalist Gordy Slack offers a rivet ing, personal, and often amusing first-hand account that details six weeks of so me of the most widely ranging, fascinating, and just plain surreal testimony in U.S. legal history?a battle between hard science and religious conservatives w ishing to promote a new version of creationism in schools.During the Kitz miller vs. Dover Areas School Board trial, the members of the local school boa rd defended their decision to require teachers to present intelligent design a longside evolution as an explanation for the origins and diversity of life on ea rth. The trial revealed much more than a disagreement about how to approach scie nce 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 Ge orge W. Bush-appointed Judge John Jones III was unexpected in its stridency: Not only did he conclude that intelligent design was religion and not science and t herefore had no place in a science classroom, he scolded the school board for wa sting public time and money.A sophisticated examination of the deep cultu ral, religious, and political tensions that continue to divide America, The Batt le Over the Meaning of Everything is also journalist Gordy Slack?s personal an d engaging story of the high drama and unforgettable characters on both sides of the courtroom controversy.Gordy Slack (Oakland, CA) has been writing abou t science and evolutionary biology for 15 years. He is a regular commentator on KQED, an affiliate of NPR, and his articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Salon.…