40 Days and 40 Nights

<p>In this fascinating story of evolution religion politics and personalities Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America.</p><p>Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education decided in late 2005 pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as creationism in a lab coat) against the teaching of evolution. Matthew Chapman the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin spent several months covering the trial from beginning to end. Through his in-depth encounters with the participants--creationists preachers teachers scientists on both sides of the issue lawyers theologians the judge and the eleven parents who resisted the fundamentalist proponents of intelligent design--Chapman tells a sometimes terrifying often hilarious and above all moving story of ordinary people doing battle in America over the place of religion and science in modern life. </p>