Review by John C. Snider © 2007

[This review originally appeared in February 2007 in the online magazine scifidimensions.com.]

It’s hard to believe, 82 years after the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, that there are still Americans who really do believe that the earth is 6,600 years old (give or take a century) and that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is just a bunch of atheistic balderdash. Especially over the last 25 years or so, the American “Culture Wars” have become something of a farce. Not a year goes by that some local school board kowtows to the Religious Right by insisting that Creationism, or Intelligent Design (so-called theories that are utterly devoid of any scientific validity), be taught side-by-side with evolution, as if these competing worldviews were actually viable alternatives. Scientists and concerned proponents of good education who bother to oppose these fundamentalist eruptions are engaged in a perpetual game of “whack the gopher” – no sooner than, say, Dover, Pennsylvania has been set right, than mischief-makers pop up in Cobb County, Georgia, or elsewhere. (more…)