Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

by Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel

Book Overview

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin's day. In this thoughtful examination of how we teach origins, historian Adam Laats and philosopher Harvey Siegel offer crucial new ways to think not just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022633127X
• ISBN13: 9780226331270
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"