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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815970403321

Autore

Haught Brandon

Titolo

Going ape : Florida's battles over evolution in the classroom / / Brandon Haught

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-4757-9

0-8130-5040-5

0-8130-4877-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

576.8

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology) - Study and teaching - Florida

Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy

Creationism

Religion and state

Religion and science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Between the devil and the deep blue sea" -- "Un-American, atheistic, subversive, and communistic" -- "A spirit of compromise and conciliation" -- "A history of hoaxes, deception, and deceit" -- "A conspiracy to destroy the faith of children" -- "It was historic, wasn't it?" -- "One of the primal evils in our country" -- "There are razor blades in that apple" -- "I want God to be part of this" -- "Who gets to decide what is science?" -- "Standing up for the little guy".

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Haught chronicles the war over teaching evolution in Florida's schools, from the first shouts of religious persecution and child endangerment in Tallahassee in 1923 to the forced delays and extra public hearings in state-level textbook adoptions today.