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More than Darwin

An Encyclopedia of the People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy

by Randy Moore, Mark D. Decker

Published 2008432 pagesISBN 978-0-3133-4155-7

Over 450 entries, predominantly those of persons, but also organizations and places. The entries include: Adam and Eve, American Anti-Evolution Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Answers in Genesis (AiG), H.M.S. Beagle, Bible Crusaders of America, Big Bone Lick, William Jennings Bryan, Burgess Shale outcrop, Cardiff Giant, Chicxulub Crater, Creation Evidence Museum, Creation Science Research Center, Clarence Darrow, Anne Darwin, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Darwin College, Deluge Society, Dinosaur National Monument, Discovery Institute, Eugenics and the Eugenics Record Office, Jerry Falwell, Flintstones, Fuegians, Galapagos Islands, Garden of Eden, Stephen Jay Gould, Grand Canyon, Hadrian’s Wall, Inherit the Wind, Ku Klux Klan, Aimee Semple McPherson, Linnaen Society of London, Mitochondrial Eve, National Academy of Sciences, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Center for Science Education, National Science Foundation, National Science Society of Brunn, National Science Teachers Association, Noah, Paluxy riverbed, Piltdown Man, Red Queen, Roadside dinosaurs, Ronald Reagan, John Thomas Scopes, Temple of Serapis, Sicar Point, Society for the Study of Evolution, Willam A. “Billy” Sunday, Jimmy Swaggart, Turasco v. Watkins, Turkana Boy, World's Christian Fundamentals Association.

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Reading lengthA standard-length read432 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
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