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01/31/2009

Monkey Girl — 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 in Dover, Penna., decides to confront such questions head-on, thrusting its students, then an entire community, into the midst of America’s culture wars?

Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul, from ecco Books/Harper Collins, confronts these questions head on. Monkey Girl takes you to the front lines of America’s war over evolution, the epic court case on teaching "intelligent design" it spawned, and the national struggle over what we believe — and should teach our children — about our origins. Told from the perspectives of all sides of this battle, Monkey Girl chronicles the second coming of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, a story about what happens when science and religion collide.

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