Citation

Lerner LS. Evo Edu Outreach 2010; 3(4): 675-676.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010)

DOI

10.1007/s12052-010-0283-4

PMID

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Abstract

When the authors set out to compile this chronology, they must have had in mind a reference work for a specialized audience--namely, persons with a more-than-casual interest in the history of the evolution-creationism conflict and the way that conflict is embedded in the historical development of our understanding of life on Earth. The authors have succeeded very well, with a list of events from ca. 2700 BCE (early Egyptian creation myths) to 2009 CE (17 entries including, inter alia, the Darwin bicentennial/sesquicentennial, creationist science teacher John Freshwater's countersuit against his dismissal for preaching, teaching creationism, and branding students with a Tesla coil, and the government seizure of imprisoned tax-evader Kent Hovind's creationist theme park.) Each event is given a paragraph, most of them less than ten lines, but with some longer ones as well.As the authors point out, such a chronology enables the reader to put individual events into a broader context: "Reader...

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