Famous Trials                                                                       Spring 2003

 

Scopes Etc.

 

 

Berra, Tim M.  Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to

the Facts in the Evolution Debate.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.  198 pp. + xvii.   Detailed Info. The title tells you what the book intends to do!  Author is a professor of zoology. 

 

 

Conkin, Paul C.  When all the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and

American Intellectuals.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.  184 pp. + xi.   Detailed info. Most Americans’ basic beliefs were derived from Judeo-Christian religion, but faced major challenges to those beliefs in the 20^th century.  This book considers Darwinism and a variety of responses, including those of intellectuals.  Author is a history professor.  netLibrary eBook

 

Eve, Raymond A. and Francis B. Harrold.  The Creationist Movement in

Modern America.  Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.  234 pp. + xii.  One author is a sociologist, the other an archeologist.  A sociological examination of the creationist movement. 

 

Gilkey, Langdon.  Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock. 

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.  First published 1985. 301 pp. + xxvi.  A theologian writes about his involvement in a 1981 case in Arkansas.

 

Ginger, Ray.  Six Days or Forever? : Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.  Detailed info. Interesting and informative book published in 1950s, and still valuable.   Two students may choose this book as library has multiple copies.

 

Larson, Edward J.  Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s

Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.  Detailed info. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.  318 pp + x. Sets the Scopes trial in its educational and political context, and discusses its continuing significance.  Two students may choose this book as library has multiple copies.

 

Miller, Kenneth R.  Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for

Common Ground Between God and Evolution. Detailed info. New York: Cliff Street Books (HarperCollins), 1999. 338 pp. + xiii.  Author is cell biologist and college professor.  He argues that critics’ arguments against evolution don’t succeed, but contends that belief in God is quite consistent with evolution.

 

Morris, Henry M., ed.  Scientific Creationism.  Green Forest, AR: Master

Books, 1985.  First published 1974. 281 pp. + xiv.   Detailed info. An argument for scientific creationism.

 

Nelkin, Dorothy.  The Creation Controversy: Science or Scripture in the

Schools.  Info. Boston: Beacon Press, 1982.  242 pp. 

 

Newell, Norman D.  New York: Praeger, 1985.199 pp. + xxxiii.  Creation

and Evolution: Myth or Reality? Written by a professor of geology and paleontology.  From the jacket: book contends "that what makes the forces of nature obedient to evolutionary processes is not a decree from high heaven but a law of nature which it is a mortal sin to deny." 

 

Numbers, Ronald L.  Darwinism Comes to America.  Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1998.  216 pp.  Detailed info. Treats the reception of Darwinism in America from 1860 to the early part of the twentieth century.  Discusses creationism, Darwinism in the American South, and Holiness and Pentecostal responses, among other topics.  Numbers is a highly regarded expert on the topic. 

 

Ratzsch, Del.  The Battle of Beginnings: Why Neither Side is Winning the

Creation-Evolution Debate.  Detailed info. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1996.  248 pp.  Author is a philosophy professor who specializes in philosophy of science. 

 

Roberts, Jon H.  Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant

Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. 339 pp. + xviii.  Discusses the various strategies American Protestants used as they tried to come to terms with Darwinism. 

 

Rose, Michael A.  Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern

World.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.  233 pp + x.  Detailed info. Written by a professor of evolutionary biology.  Introduces the theory of evolution and its key concepts, and shows its importance.

 

Ruse, Michael.  Can a Darwinian be a Christian? : The Relationship between Science and Religion. Detailed info.

 

Ruse, Michael.  Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? 

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.  296 pp + viii. Detailed info. A discussion of the nature of science, written by a professor of philosophy and zoology who is very familiar with Darwinism. 

 

Toumey, Christopher P.  God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular

World.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.  289 pp. + xi.  Detailed info. Author is a professor of anthropology.  This is a study of creation scientists.

 

Webb, George E. The Evolution Controversy in America.  Lexington:

University Press of Kentucky, 1994.  297 pp. + xii.  A survey of the controversy from the start to the late twentieth century.  Author is a history professor.  Two students may choose this book as library has multiple copies.