In the Beginning: Further Exploration
Mentioned on the Show:
- Thomas Jefferson’s fossil collection
- A wealth of resources on Darwin from the Victorian Web, plus his complete works online
- Darwiniana, botanist Asa Gray’s essays on DarwinismWatch Rev.
- Irwin Moon’s films
Consulted
- Scopes Trial resources: a PBS documentary, rare photographs, web archive of primary sources
- A Pew Research Center study onĀ Religious Belief and Public Attitudes and a study of Religion Among Academic Scientists funded by the Templeton Foundation
- Reflections on the founding of the Moody Institute of Science, plus a California man who is reviving Moon’s Sermons from Science
- Andrew Dickson White’s A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom and John William Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, two influential late-19th Century works establishing the “conflict thesis,” which holds that science and religion are inevitably opposed
Other
- Paul Semonin’s American Monster: How the Nation’s First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity
- How the National Academy of Sciences views science, evolution, and creationism
- Reflections on the founding of the Moody Institute of Science, plus a California man who is reviving Moon’s Sermons from Science
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[...] galore! The BackStory team has pulled together some outside material to help you navigate the world of origin stories, including a bibliography of the sources consulted [...]
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