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Author Haught, Brandon

Title Going ape : Florida's battles over evolution in the classroom / Brandon Haught
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
©2014

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Contents "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."
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching -- Florida
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
Creationism.
Religion and state.
Religion and science.
Evolution (Biology)
Teaching.
Schools.
Biological Evolution
Teaching
Religion and Science
Schools
creationism (religious ideology)
evolution.
teaching.
schools (institutions)
schools (buildings)
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
SCIENCE -- History.
Teaching
Schools
Evolution (Biology)
Creationism
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy
Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching
Religion and science
Religion and state
SUBJECT Florida
Subject Florida
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813048772
081304877X
130656364X
9781306563642
9780813050409
0813050405