40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania

My great-great-grandfather was Charles Darwin, but if you think because of this, I am incapable of changing my mind about the teaching of evolution and creationism, you are wrong. At the start of the trial I strongly believed Intelligent design and other forms of creationism should be banned from high school science classes and that only evolution should he taught. Listening to the arguments of the intelligent design advocates, I eventually became convinced that creationism in all its forms should be a mandatory part of every child's science education.

My reasons for believing this are slightly different from those of the intelligent design proponents, but that's another story, the story of this book.... In Kitzmiller v. Dover, experts of all kinds would be welcome. Biologists got top billing, of course, but there would also be paleontologists, philosophers, even theologians. And that wasn't all: the locals would take the stand too, those for evolution and those against.

A bomb had exploded in a small town and blown it apart. The autopsy was about to begin. Here was a case that would not just put evolution and intelligent design on trial but also reveal America's soul. If you believed in souls....