Summary
It is particularly apt as the source of the title of this exceptional book, since some of the predominant character traits of fundamentalist creationists are a blatant and pervasive bullying nastiness, contempt for opposing views and those who express them, and general meanness of spirit.
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Dover, Pennsylvania: The Battle for Our Children
Dover, Pennsylvania: The Battle for Our Children Monkey Girt by Edward Humes, Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007. 400 pp. $25.95 ISBN-10: 0060885483, ISBN-13: 978-0060885489
"When I said I thought it would be kind of good to learn more about evolution, some other kids started calling me Monkey Girl. 'Cause they said God made them, but that I must've come from chimps."THE QUOTE ABOVE IS FROM THE 14-year-old daughter of Tammy Kitzmiller, one of the chief plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the court case that decisively stopped creationism from being taught as science in public schools in Pennsylvania-and, hopefully, the nation. It is particularly apt as the source of the title of this exceptional book, since some of the predominant character traits of fundamentalist creationists are a blatant and perv...See the full content of this document
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