Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Evolution before Darwin's On the origin of species. Zoonomia / Erasmus Darwin ; Zoological philosophy / Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ; Discourse on the revolutionary upheavals on the surface of the globe and on the changes which they have produced in the animal kingdom / Baron Georges Cuvier ; Natural theology / William Paley ; Vestiges of the natural history of creation / Robert Chambers -- Darwin's theory of natural selection. The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin ; On the origin of species / Charles Darwin ; "Letters and reminiscences" / Alfred Russel Wallace ; "On a piece of chalk" / Thomas H. Huxley ; The descent of man / Charles Darwin -- Reviews of Darwin's work. "Design versus necessity : discussion between two readers of Darwin's treatise On the origin of species, upon its natural theology" / Asa Gray ; Essay on classification / Louis Agassiz ; The antiquity of man / Charles Lyell ; "The origin of species [review article]" / Fleeming Jenkin ; "Review of Darwin's Origin of species" / Samuel Wilberforce -- Evolution and anti-evolution in the interphase. Darwinism to-day / Vernon Kellogg ; "Evolutionary faith and modern doubts" / William Bateson ; "William Bateson on Darwinism" / Henry Fairfield Osborn ; "Why we must be evolutionists" / J. Arthur Thomson ; "Some aspects of evolution" / Richard Goldschmidt -- The rise of fundamentalism and its opposition to evolution. World's Christian Fundamentals Association Doctrinal Statement ; Headquarters nights : a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium / Vernon Kellogg ; Butler Act, Public Acts of the State of Tennessee ; John Thomas Scopes v. the State, Supreme Court of Tennessee ; "Summary argument in Scopes trial" / William Jennings Bryan ; "A brief reply by Clarence Darrow, likens Bryan speech to lawyer's argumentative statement" ; American inquisitors : a commentary on Dayton and Chicago / Walter Lippmann -- The modern evolutionary synthesis. "The God of evolution" / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ; "Christianity and Darwin's revolution" / Reinhold Niebuhr ; "Darwin and the idea of evolution" / Julian Huxley ; "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" / Theodosius Dobzhansky ; Repeal of the Butler Act ; Epperson v. Arkansas -- From equal time to the de-emphasis of evolution in American schools. Life / George Gaylord Simpson, Colin S. Pittendrigh, and Lewis H. Tiffany ; "Evolution, creation, and the public schools" / Henry Morris ; "The mathematical impossibility of evolution" / Henry Morris ; McLean v. Arkansas / William R. Overton ; "Science at the bar : causes for concern" / Larry Laudan ; "Pro judice" / Michael Ruse ; "Truth cannot contradict truth" / Pope John Paul II ; "The new antievolutionism" / Michael Ruse -- Intelligent design and the school board debates. Darwin's black box : a biochemical challenge to evolution / Michael Behe ; "They're here!" / Michael Ruse ; Defeating Darwinism by opening minds / Phillip E. Johnson ; "The Wedge document" / The Discovery Institute, Center for the Renewal of Science & Culture ; Kitzmiller v. Dover / John E. Jones III.
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Features documents, to help understand the debate in the eyes of the people of the time; from the predecessors of Darwin to the judges of the influential court cases of the present day.