
The battle over the meaning of everything : : evolution, intelligent design, and a school board in Dover, PA / Gordy Slack
Tác giả : Gordy Slack
Nhà xuất bản : Jossey-Bass
Năm xuất bản : 2007
Nơi xuất bản : San Francisco
Mô tả vật lý : xi, 228 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN : 9780787987862 (cloth)
Số phân loại : 344.74841077
Chủ đề : 1. Sự tiến hóa (Sinh học) -- Luật và pháp luật -- Dạy và học -- Pennsylvania -- Dover. 2. Thiết kế thông minh (Mục đích luận) -- Luật và pháp luật -- Dạy và học -- Pennsylvania -- Dover. 3. Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation -- Dover -- Pennsylvania. 4. Intelligent design (Teleology) -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania -- Dover. 5. Pháp luật về sự tiến hóa.
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Tóm tắt : | tarred Review. Slack, the former editor of natural history magazine Pacific Discovery, has long covered clashes between scientists and creationists, and he knows both sides thoroughly-his own father, an experimental psychologist, took up creationism in the late 1990s, following a conversion to fundamentalist Christianity. In 2005, online magazine Salon assigned Slack to cover a federal court case in which a group of parents sued a Pennsylvania school board after it voted to include creationist material in high school science curricula. While Slack never hides his own convictions-firmly in support of evolution-he is staunchly even-handed throughout, giving all players the opportunity to represent themselves and their ideas. Everyone involved in the case-the presiding judge, the opposing teams of attorneys, the students and townspeople of Dover-come alive in Slack's economical yet revealing prose, and his history of both the contemporary creationist resurgence and the long-running philosophical debates behind it provide some much-needed perspective on modern American culture wars. In this must-read for anyone involved in education-from federal officials to local school board voters-Slack demonstrates in crisp, clear language how science and religion are not opposites, but different ways of thinking, each valuable for different purposes. |
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