BackStory

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 on  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