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Author: Larry Witham
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The conflict between creationists and evolutionists
has raged ever since the publication of On the Origin
of Species in 1859. And yet, even as generations of
Americans have fought and re-fought the same battles,
the contours of the debate have in recent years
shifted dramatically. Tracking the dizzying rhetorical
heights and opportunistic political lows of this
controversy, Larry Witham travels to America's churches,
schools, universities, museums, and government agencies
to present creationists and evolutionists in their own
unfiltered voices. We meet leading creationists such as
Michael Behe; evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins;
and theistic scientists who describe how they reconcile
God and Nature. Today, Biblical literalism is tempered
by the Intelligent Design movement, which finds evidence
of God's presence in nature's patterns. The once-dominant
"young earth" school has been replaced by a creationism
that conscripts the language of science to advance the
creationist cause. Meanwhile, evolutionary scientists
hesitate to point out gaps in their theories for fear that
such self-scrutiny could serve as fodder for anti-evolution
propaganda. In an age marked both by a rising religious
tide and daily scientific breakthroughs, Where Darwin Meets
the Bible provides the standard account of this lasting
conflict.
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