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Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to hav...e doubts about her faith. Growing up in a culture obsessed with apologetics, Evans asks questions she never thought she would ask. She learns that in order for her faith to survive in a postmodern context, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty, through doubt, to faith, Evans adds a unique perspective to the ongoing dialogue about postmodernism and the church that has so captivated the Christian community in recent years. In a changing cultural environment where new ideas threaten the safety and security of the faith, Evolving in Monkey Town is a fearlessly honest story of survival.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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Darwin on Trial
Phillip E. Johnson Explores The Theory Of Evolution, And Argues That It Is Based On Faith In Philosophical Naturalism, Rather Than Fact, And That There Is No Body Of Empirical Data Supporting The Theo...ry. Is Evolution Fact Or Fancy? Is Natural Selection An Unsupported Hypothesis Or A Confirmed Mechanism Of Evolutionary Change? These Were The Courageous Questions That Professor Of Law Phillip Johnson Originally Took Up In 1991. His Relentless Pursuit To Follow The Evidence Wherever It Leads Remains As Relevant Today As Then. The Facts And The Logic Of The Arguments That Purport To Establish A Theory Of Evolution Based On Darwinian Principles, Says Johnson, Continue To Draw Their Strength From Faith--faith In Philosophical Naturalism. In This Edition Johnson Responds To Critics Of The First Edition And Maintains That Scientists Have Put The Cart Before The Horse, Regarding As Scientific Fact What Really Should Be Regarded As A Yet Unproved Hypothesis. The Legal Setting -- Natural Selection -- Mutations Great And Small -- The Fossil Problem -- The Fact Of Evolution -- The Vertebrate Sequence -- The Molecular Evidence -- Prebiological Evolution -- The Rules Of Science -- Darwinist Religion -- Darwinist Education -- Science And Pseudoscience -- The Book And Its Critics. Phillip E. Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 171-213) And Index.
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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? This Book 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.--from Publisher Description. Origins -- Balancing Act -- What Lies Beneath -- I'd Rather Take A Beating Than Back Down -- Darwin's Nemesis -- Class Acts -- Survival Of The Fittest -- Broken Watches -- The Watchmake Returns -- The Waters Of Kansas Part -- What Will We Tell The Children? -- Unnatural Selections -- Send Lawyers, Geeks, And Money -- Monkey Suit -- Sword And Shield, Shock And Awe -- Paleozoic Roadkill, Kentucky Fried Chicken And Bad Frog Beer -- Of Panders And People - Under The Microscope, Deer In The Headlights -- Forty Days And Forty Nights -- Breathtaking Inanity. Edward Humes. Includes Index.
Folly
If there was one thing Lilian Eliot might have said about herself, it was that she knew her own mind. She was not a flighty girl; no one in Boston in 1917 would have said that about her. She wrote her... thank-you notes promptly and had some wit which saved her from being too prim. No great misfortune had darkened her eighteen years—in the distance now was the war—but otherwise there was no reason for her life not to be full and prosperous and happy. But how does happiness come? As her sophisticated aunt says, even a girl who is not an idiot can behave like one, given the right situation and the right boy. When Walter Vail, an enlisted man from New York, descends upon her, dazzling her, and then disappears, Lilian feels she will never marry. But years later she develops an interest in Gilbert Finch, an old Bostonian like herself, solitary and apart, who promises something she understands, and can love. And Walter Vail reappears. Folly is the story of a conventional girl with unconventional stirrings and of the two men in her life who represent different possibilities. In Lilian Eliot's world, from Beacon Hill to summers in Maine to Grand Tours in Europe between the two world wars, it is the choosing of a husband that determines a woman's life. Susan Minot has created a society and a way of life in the tradition of Edith Wharton.Publishers WeeklyA coming-of-age story set in turn-of-the-century Boston from the author of Monkeys .
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
Master storyteller Ronald Kidd weaves a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, together with a recreation of The Scopes Trial—the most enduring trial of the twentieth century.Sch...ool is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on a teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H. L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan. Overnight the world is flocking to Dayton to decide: Are people really descended from monkeys? Does the theory of evolution have a place in biology class? As Frances sees the man she loves struggling beside her, she begins to question her town, her neighbors, and the father she has always trusted.Alan ReviewGiven the recent debate regarding intelligent design, Kidd's Monkey Town is especially timely. Inspired by a chance meeting with the daughter of one of the key players in the Scopes Monkey Trial, Kidd carefully researched the events of the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, and young people with an interest in the evolution controversy should find this a compelling read. Kidd's novel retells the Scopes story as one of a small town struggling to survive in the face of economic hardship. Town leaders see in the ACLU's offer to defend any teacher charged under the state's new anti-evolution law an opportunity to bring attention, publicity, and prosperity to Dayton. With the consent of John Scopes, the trial moves forward, ultimately to become part of American mythology. Monkey Town provides an accessible glimpse into an important incident in American history and culture. The book is especially well-suited for interdisciplinary studies, and the topic should be of interest to many contemporary students.
Scratch Monkey
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The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
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The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
the Page-turning First-person Story Behind The 2005 Intelligent Design Case In Dover, Pennsylvania
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
Searing Dispatches From The First Confrontation Between American Fundamentalism And Science That So Galvanized The Nationi They Inspired The Hit Play And Movie Inherit The Wind. With The Rise Of Intel...ligent Design, H. L. Mencken's Legendary Coverage Of The Scopes Monkey Trial - Collected Here For The First Time As A Single Volume - Has Never Seemed More Timely ... Or Timeless. -- Book Cover The Tennessee Circus -- Homo Neanderthalensis -- In Tennessee -- Mencken Finds Daytonians Full Of Sickening Doubts About Value Of Publicity -- Impossibility Of Obtaining Fair Jury Insures Scopes' Conviction, Says Mencken -- Mencken Likens Trial To A Religious Orgy, With Defendant A Beelzebub -- Yearning Mountaineers' Souls Need Reconversion Nightly, Mencken Finds -- Darrow's Eloquent Appeal Wasted On Ears That Heed Only Bryan, Says Mencken -- Law And Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place To Holy Writ In Rhea County -- Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken Of Tennessee Fundamentalists -- Malone The Victor, Even Though Court Sides With Opponents, Says Mencken -- Battle Now Over, Mencken Sees : Genesis Triumphant And Ready For New Jousts -- Tennessee In The Frying Pan -- Bryan -- Round Two -- Aftermath -- To Expose A Fool. H.l. Mencken. Articles Originally Published In The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, Or The American Mercury.
