{"product_id":"9780060885496","title":"Monkey Girl : Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMonkey Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Edward Humes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat should we teach our children about where we come from? \u003cbr\u003eIs evolution a lie or good science? \u003cbr\u003eIs it incompatible with faith? \u003cbr\u003eHave scientists really detected evidence of a creator in nature? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. \u003cem\u003eMonkey Girl\u003c\/em\u003e takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town's school board decision to confront the controversy head-on thrust its students, then the entire community, onto the front lines of America's culture wars. Told from the perspectives of all sides of the battle, it is a riveting true story about an epic court case on the teaching of \"intelligent design,\" and what happens when science and religion collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“An absorbing, character-driven story of the Dover case.”\u003cbr\u003e“Humes especially shines in his careful explication of the history of this larger fight.”\u003cbr\u003e“Making a complicated issue accessible . . . His fast-moving, richly detailed book reads like a suspense novel.”\u003cbr\u003e“A valuable primer . . . An illuminating blend of science, religion and politics.”\u003cbr\u003e“[E]xcellent science writing, with crisp explanations of complicated evolutionary mechanisms, and fascinating material on Darwin.”\u003cbr\u003e“His writing is vivid, memorable, and engaging, and a welcome breath of common sense.”\u003cbr\u003e“Rich back stories of characters from both sides of the courtroom make self-evident the fundamental culture war brewing.”\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinatingly detailed record of the creationist war on science.”\u003cbr\u003e“In painstaking detail, Humes breaks down the politics and the science . . . inexhaustible reporting married to talent.”\u003cbr\u003e“An unusually deft analysis . . . based upon extensive behind-the-scenes interviews . . . highly recommended.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060885496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41049203605710,"sku":"9780060885496","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060885496.jpg?v=1648090464","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060885496","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}