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298 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the "design intuition": the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can only be accomplished by someone who has that knowledge. For the ingenious task of inventing life, this knower can only be God. He explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid, and then uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people...
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ben Stein travels the world on a quest to learn an awe-inspiring truth - that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired for merely believing that there might be evidence of 'design' in nature, and that perhaps life is not the result of accidental, random chance, but of intelligent design.
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viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives. In Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, he explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years...
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viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Poses an argument supporting both science and religion that explains how both sides can be reconciled, in an account that describes the scientist author's own commitment to Christianity in spite of his abandonment of his family's fundamentalist creationism beliefs.
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Exposé of the power struggle inside the Texas State Board of Education, the government body that determines what students learn in Texas public schools and, due to the buying power of their system, often the entire country. Showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious, and ideological clashes, with Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in...
10) The monkey trial
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The trial of John Scopes, a Tennesee biology teacher arrested in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The Scopes trial was America's first major media event.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Judgment day: intelligent design on trial" captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design--the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must...
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