The Devil in Dover
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| Author | Lauri Lebo |
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| Subject | Intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District |
| Publisher | The New Press |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1-59558-208-9 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America is a book by journalist Lauri Lebo about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District intelligent design trial, through her own perspective as a local reporter on the trial as she confronted her own attitudes about organized religion and her father who was a fundamentalist Christian.
Themes
The book explores the behind-the-scenes events that led to the filing of a lawsuit by Tammy Kitzmiller and ten other parents in Dover, Pennsylvania in 2005 and covers the events of the trial up to and after the verdict for the plaintiffs by Judge John E. Jones III, with an emphasis on what the case meant for the citizens of Dover.[1]
It deals with the involvement of outside parties like the Discovery Institute, Thomas Moore Law Center, ACLU, the scientific, religious and philosophical issues raised by the intelligent design movement, and the pitfalls for journalists covering a controversy like "Kitzmiller", particularly small-town reporters.[2]
It details Lebo's personal experience of the trial, including her interactions with her fundamentalist father, who favored the defendants.
References
See also
- Intelligent Design
- Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
- Lauri Lebo
- York Daily Record
- Mike Argento
Further reading
- Edward Humes, 2007. [[Monkey Girl]. Jonathan Cape. Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul. The first book account of the [i][[[Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District]][/i] trial
- Matthew Chapman, 1999. 40 Days & 40 Nights|. Harper Collins. A great-great-grandson of Darwin reflects on the "Dover monkey trial".