Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

This is a weird book. The Dover case is a perfect study in the battle to defend science from theocracy, analyzed in at least 2 other books (I recommend "Only a Theory"). This book doesn't seem to know what it wants to add to that discussion, or even who its audience might be. You'll wince every few minutes when it seems to bend over backwards to take a "both sides" position, as if it is slyly withholding its position for a surprise. It uses phrases like "Creationist critics of Evolution" - as if Creationism were merely any other valid scientific analysis. I don't think the intent was to market to both sides of the debate, I think the book just had no central thesis and ends up meandering from one contentious provocative assertion to another until it runs out of pages. Like I say, weird book.