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    Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
    Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
    Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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    Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

    Written by Edward Humes

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution a lie or good science? Is it incompatible with faith? Have scientists really detected evidence of a creator in nature?

    From bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Monkey Girl 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781705203842
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    Edward Humes

    Edward Humes is the author of ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including Eco Barons, Monkey Girl, Over Here, School of Dreams, Baby E.R., Mean Justice, No Matter How Loud I Shout, and the bestseller Mississippi Mud. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism and numerous awards for his books. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and Sierra. He lives in California.

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