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	Edward J. Larson. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. ...
		If Edward J. Larson is correct, however, that designation properly belongs to the Scopes trial, which took place in the steamy courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee.
		Larson offers a complete account of the trial itself, drawing on court documents as well as newspaper stories, but his most important contribution to our understanding of the Scopes trial comes in Part III, which examines the various ways that the Scopes trial has been interpreted since 1925.
		Larson may not extend this analysis as far as he might, and he slights somewhat the pivotal role that the acerbic Mencken, utterly blinded by his loathing for Bryan, played in (mis)interpreting the Scopes trial.
	jsr.as.wvu.edu /balmer.htm (616 words)

	Prof. Edward J. Larson Faculty Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Larson is the Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia and the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History.
		Larson has published several law review articles, eight referred history articles and dozens of other articles, most relating to law and science or medicine.
		Larson lectures and speaks on history, law and bio-science for academic, professional and public audiences.
	www.law.uga.edu /academics/profiles/larson.html (556 words)

	Edward J. Larson. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. ...
		If Edward J. Larson is correct, however, that designation properly belongs to the Scopes trial, which took place in the steamy courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee.
		Larson offers a complete account of the trial itself, drawing on court documents as well as newspaper stories, but his most important contribution to our understanding of the Scopes trial comes in Part III, which examines the various ways that the Scopes trial has been interpreted since 1925.
		Larson may not extend this analysis as far as he might, and he slights somewhat the pivotal role that the acerbic Mencken, utterly blinded by his loathing for Bryan, played in (mis)interpreting the Scopes trial.
	www.as.wvu.edu /coll03/relst/jsr/balmer.htm (616 words)

	Edward Larson on the Paula Gordon Show
		Larson, a respected historian and lawyer, declares the Scopes Trial key to the revolution away from the dominance of majority rule and toward protecting individual rights.
		Larson explains why the Scopes trial is a classic example of how the Anglo-American legal system works and how it ended in a philosophical draw which entrenched and further polarized people on both sides of the question of evolution.
		Larson expresses his confidence that today's media-enhanced conflicts between creationists and evolutionists are exaggerated, that in fact, most thinking people in the world actually believe in God AND evolution.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/larson (1179 words)

	Edward J. Larson
		Larson explains how the Scopes Trial was a key transitional event in America, instrumental to a revolution which extended Bill of Rights protections (especially the First Amendment) in defense of individual liberties.
		Larson describes the deep concerns of people in the scientific community who view understanding evolution as profoundly important and worry that a lack of understanding is crippling.
		Larson summarized and made accessible Darwin's theories in the context of their time and as they've been updated and adapted by modern science.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/larson/index2.html (1243 words)

	\| Book Review \| Law and History Review, 17.2 \| The History Cooperative
		Larson revitalizes the seventy-year-old "Monkey" trial and shows that the antievolution controversy was not merely a conflict between science and "fool religion" to use Clarence Darrow's slur.
		This legacy is problematic for Larson because the play distorted the facts, characters, and tenor of the trial, foreclosing on its continued application to American social and political debates.
		Larson clearly shows that this conflict was real and rooted historically, but he does not sufficiently elaborate the social effects of evolutionary theory, and so we are hampered from fully grasping the context in which Bryan and Darrow argued their cases.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/17.2/br_13.html (900 words)

	Journal of Religion and Society
		Larson does add a short chapter at the end about current evolution-religion controversies, but these controversies hardly encompass the broader debates about science and religion.
		Larson suggests that Darrow embraced the theory of evolution not because he thought it was scientifically sound, but because it served his anti-religious viewpoint (73).
		Larson acutely observes that "Inherit the Wind dramatically illustrates why so many Americans continue to believe in the mythical war between science and religion" (242).
	moses.creighton.edu /JRS/2000/2000-r5.html (2045 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Evolution, by Edward J. Larson, Hardcover
		Larson reminds readers that Darwin hasn't always been held in as high esteem as he is today, even among scientists: at the beginning of the 1900s, the concept of evolution was widely accepted, but natural selection was not.
		Larson devotes chapters to dark episodes in evolution's history like the early 20th-century eugenics movement and the Scopes trial, where, Larson proposes, Clarence Darrow's theatrics may have done the cause more harm than good.
		Larson is to be commended for stressing the value of both scientific inquiry and the evolutionary framework.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780679642886&pwb=1&z=y (978 words)

	Online NewsHour: Edward Larson -- April 20, 1998
		EDWARD LARSON, Pulitzer Prize, History: Thank you so much, and thank you for having me. You know, your show is a national treasure.
		EDWARD LARSON: Well, social Darwinism is the theory that sort of a conservative product of Darwinism that was being used by people like Carnegie and Rockefeller to defend what was sort of the exploitation of labor, the growing militarism.
		EDWARD LARSON: Well, in a legal sense Scopes was found guilty but they admitted he had broken the law.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/larson_4-20.html (1441 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		Larson's work itself, you are invited to read his Templeton Lecture "God and the Galapagos" which appeared on Metanexus this past August (2001.08.27).
		Larson, who currently chairs the history department at the University of Georgia, is the 1998 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history.
		Larson traces in detail scientific debates of this more recent period, such as the one between Bowman and ornithologist David Lack on the evolutionary basis for adaptive radiation in Darwin's finches: Lack held that interspecies competition had contributed to speciation, while Bowman stressed differences in food as the only necessary selective force.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article2.asp?ID=5217 (2258 words)

	Evolution: Church-State Separation (washingtonpost.com)
		Edward J. Larson: Some theologians are making such points, but there is a long history within Protestant Christianity of using evidence of design in nature as proof for God and indication of His character.
		Edward J. Larson: So far, intelligent design is mostly a critique of evolution theory rather than an alternative theory of origins.
		Edward J. Larson: So far as I know, virtually all biologists accept an evolutionary explanation for the origin of species -- which is the basic point made by this question.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A7274-2005Jan13.html (2707 words)

	Science v. Religion: The history and significance of the 1925 Scopes trial
		However, while Larson's account of this history is interesting he makes clear early on that he will shed little light on the central issue of his book: the debate between religion and science, of which Darwin's theory is only a part.
		Larson views the conflict that led to the Scopes trial as very much an "American debate." The limitations of Larson's presentation of the conflict stems primarily from his failure to consider the religion/science "debate" in the context of the Enlightenment, which began nearly two centuries before Darwin's discovery.
		While Larson points out that all the members of the Scopes defense team were either members of or influenced by the socialist and labor movements, he doesn't deal with the long association between Darwinian evolution and its defense by socialists.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/aug1998/scop-a25.shtml (2337 words)

	Harvard University Press: Summer for the Gods : The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Larson won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his excellent Summer for the Gods, an investigation into the [Scopes] trial and why it still matters.
		Edward Larson tells the true story of the Scopes trial brilliantly, and the truth is a lot more interesting than the myth that was presented to the public in Inherit the Wind.
		Edward J. Larson is Hugh & Hazel Darling Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/LARSUX.html?show=reviews (451 words)

	News and Information - The Ohio State University
		Honorary doctorates will be presented to Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history and law at the University of Georgia; Leon M. Lederman, an internationally renowned specialist in high-energy physics; and M.S. Swaminathan, one of the world’s leading agricultural scientists.
		Edward J. Larson is the Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law at the University of Georgia and recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history.
		Larson currently holds a joint appointment in the history department and law school at the University of Georgia, where he teaches the history of science to undergraduates and health, science, and technology law to law students.
	www.osu.edu /news/lvl2_news_story.php?id=988 (1635 words)

	Amazon.ca: Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution: Books: Edward J. Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Larson offers the first comprehensive survey of Christian forays into public education in the United States, and the legal disputes that ensued.
		Larson outlines the background to American forms of Christianity [which have few counterparts elsewhere], before homing in on the 1925 landmark trial in Dayton, Tennessee.
		Larson cites the Soviet Union's launching of a silvery sphere in orbit around the planet as prompting a new outlook.
	www.amazon.ca /Trial-Error-Controversy-Creation-Evolution/dp/0195154711 (1234 words)

	Monkey Business - New York Times
		Edward J. Larson provides an excellent cultural history of the case in ''Summer for the Gods,'' though his book is wanting as trial drama.
		Yet, as Larson demonstrates, the case was a contrivance from the beginning.
		Larson, who teaches history and law at the University of Georgia, gracefully documents the history of Darwinism, the theory of evolution and the fits and starts through which evolution became pitted against the Bible and fundamentalist religion.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E5DF1F3BF936A35753C1A961958260 (554 words)

	Edward J. Larson Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward J. Larson is the Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia and the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History.
		Larson has published several law review articles, eight referred history articles and dozens of other articles, most relating to law and science or medicine.
		Larson lectures and speaks on history, law and bio-science for academic, professional and public audiences.
	www.lawsch.uga.edu /academics/profiles/larson.html (550 words)

	ThisWeek Community Newspapers - -
		Larson, who is currently Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, said that when he speaks on the Scopes trial or other evolutionary topics, he often finds there is little meaningful grasp of the theory of evolution on the part of supporters or detractors.
		In addition to exploring the history of the gradual development of the theory, Larson also places its development in the context of the social forces that helped shape the theory and --in one particularly dark instance -- a social movement that was informed by one interpretation of the concept of evolution.
		Larson also recently learned he will be awarded an honorary doctorate degree from The Ohio State University this fall.
	www.thisweeknews.com /index.php?edition=common&story=thisweeknews/051304/common/News/051304-News-410621.html (1256 words)

	Amazon.fr : Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory: Livres en anglais: Edward J. Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Larson reminds readers that Darwin hasn't always been held in as high esteem as he is today, even among scientists: at the beginning of the 1900s, the concept of evolution was widely accepted, but natural selection was not.
		Larson devotes chapters to dark episodes in evolution's history like the early 20th-century eugenics movement and the Scopes trial, where, Larson proposes, Clarence Darrow's theatrics may have done the cause more harm than good.
		Edward Larson traces this complexity with fairness and accuracy, summarizing the battles and providing selections from thinkers on all sides of the debates.
	www.amazon.fr /Evolution-Remarkable-History-Scientific-Theory/dp/0679642889 (433 words)

	Recognizing Excellence in Research and Creative Activity: Edward Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward J. Larson, the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law, has a long-established record of scholarship on the theory of evolution and its social implications.
		Larson’s other books include: Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution; Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South; and Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands, which chronicles the history of science and environmental protection on these islands.
		In 2000, Dr. Larson won the George Sarton Award and delivered the prestigious George Sarton Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.ovpr.uga.edu /creativeresearch/awardwinners/LarsonEdward.htm (332 words)

	Amazon.fr : Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands: Livres en anglais: Edward J. Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Their work in the field helped overturn the prevailing orthodoxies of special creation, writes Edward J. Larson in his vigorous history of the islands and their role in the development of modern biological science.
		Still, Larson notes at the close of his fine book, "the archipelago's ecosystem has proved surprisingly resilient in the past," and conservation measures may yet be found to preserve the islands' "age-old solitude." --Gregory McNamee --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
		Larson, who received the Pulitzer Prize in history for Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion, relates the islands' fascinating history since their discovery by a Spanish bishop in 1535.
	amazon.fr /Evolutions-Workshop-Science-Galapagos-Islands/dp/0465038115 (803 words)

	The Scorpion
		Whilst Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer, historian and lawyer Professor Edward J. Larson zooms in on the impact of and upon man of one little group of islands, the Galapagos, off the west coast of South America over the last 200 years.
		Sadly, no. Larson gives an excellent and thoroughly depressing account of how that has all fallen apart thanks to a flood of immigrants from Ecuador, which on somewhat tenuous grounds has grabbed the islands, and the venality, greed and corruption of the Ecuadorian politics they brought with them.
		Larson quotes philosopher of science David Hull: "What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomised by the species on Darwin’s Gaslapagos Islands?" he asks.
	thescorp.multics.org /22ward.html (6282 words)

	Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson Scopes Trial -- Beliefnet.com
		Larson, a historian at the University of Georgia, has in previous sections described how "religion versus Darwin," which was not a hot controversy in the United States in the decades immediately following the publication of Origin of Species, became one in the 1920s.
		In this chapter, Larson describes how conservative Christians coalesced against the teaching of Darwin, with William Jennings Bryan rising as their champion.
		Excerpted from Edward J. Larson's 'Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion,' available from Basic Books.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/2/story_252_1.html (707 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Larson is a professor of history and law, and he handles complex scientific controversies and the islands' frequently tragic story with clarity and confidence.
		Visitors are allowed to walk on cliffs among albatross nests, gazing in astonishment at the floppy chicks almost as large as their parents; they can sail in submerged volcanic craters and watch sea-lions sunbathe.
		As Larson concludes in a dramatic narrative that begins with pirates and ends with eco-tourists, nothing has managed to spoil the Galapagos islands as "a place of profound wonder".
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article231439.ece (882 words)

	Pulitzer Prize in history awarded to UW grad (Apr 17, 1998)
		The 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history has been awarded to Edward J. Larson, a professor of history and law at the University of Georgia and a UW-Madison graduate.
		Larson was cited for his book, "Summer for the Gods," a cultural history of the famous Scopes monkey trial of 1925, a trial that, until the O.J. Simpson case, was the most famous trial in American history.
		As told by Larson, the story of the Scopes trial was both that of a media circus and an earnest battle between fundamentalist religion and science, a battle that Larson contends continues today.
	www.news.wisc.edu /3982.html (170 words)

	The Modern Library \| Evolution by Edward J. Larson
		Throughout, Larson trains his spotlight on the lives and careers of the scientists, explorers, and eccentrics whose collaborations and competitions have driven the theory of evolution forward.
		"Larson has written a brilliant introduction to the history of evolution, equally sensitive to scientific, religious, and social factors.
		EDWARD J. is Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law at the University of Georgia.
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679642886 (705 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Edward Larson To Speak on Evolution Teaching Controversy
		Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Edward J. Larson will speak on the longstanding controversy over the teaching of evolution in an address at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) on Monday, Oct. 24.
		Edward J. Larson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his book titled Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Creation and Religion.
		Larson’s appearance at UTD is part of the Legal Studies Lecture Series, which was begun last year to bring to campus top scholars and others in the legal field as an enrichment experience for pre-law students, the broader university community and the public.
	www.utdallas.edu /news/archive/2005/larson-evolution.html (244 words)

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