Maison d'Ętre Philosophy Bookstore
Books To Ponder:
Science, Religion & Evolution
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
— Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
“Church and state are, and must remain, separate.”
— Ronald Reagan [1911-2004]
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof', thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
— Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
{in the 'Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association', 1 January 1802}
“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance;
and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist
in greater purity the less they are mixed together.”
— James Madison [1751-1836] {in 'Letter to Edward Livingston', 10 July 1822}
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin [1809-82]
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
— Theodosius Dobzansky [1900-75], in 1973
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”
— Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, U.K.
“Patriotism may be the last refuge of scoundrels, but religion is assuredly the first.”
— Rick Cass of Florida
“One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary.”
— Stephen W. Hawking [1942-2018]
Maison d'Ętre Philosophy Bookstore's Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page
Charles Darwin [1809-82] entry at Wikipedia
the complete works of Charles Darwin online
biological evolution entry at Wikipedia
'separation of church & state' entry at Wikipedia
Americans United for Separation of Church & State [est. 1947]
Working Minds / Action / First Amendment Page
Books On The Subject
{ 2005 to present }
classic books to modern times, 1795 to 2004 {below}
recent books on the topic {below}
 | "The Republican War On Science" [2005] by Chris Mooney Basic Books 8x5¼ 2nd edition pb [8/2006] for $10.17 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.47 author website/blog • official booksite |
 | "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible & Why" [2005] by Bart D. Ehrman HarperSFO 8x5¼ pb [2/2007] for $10.17 HarperSFO 9¼x6¾ hardcover [11/2005] for $14.97 author's faculty homepage |
 | "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country From The Religious Right" [2006] by Rabbi Michael Lerner
HarperSFO 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.17 HarperSFO 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $16.47 |
 | "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" [2006] by Michelle Goldberg W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.17 W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.29 |
 | "Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament - How The Religious Right Distorts The Faith and Threatens America" [2006] by Randall Balmer
Basic Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2007] for $10.85 Basic Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [7/2006] for $16.47 |
 | "Right Wing Politics and Religion: The Unholy Alliance Exposed" [2006] by Henry Bechthold Howling Dog Press 8¾x5¾ pb [7/2006] for $10.17 |
 | "The God Delusion" [2006] by Richard Dawkins
Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2008 edition] for $6.29 Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2008] for $10.85 Houghton Mifflin 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $15.84 author's official website |
 | "Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" [2006] by Frans de Waal refutes the common 'veneer theory' of morality and explains how evolution works to produce both Machiavellian survival and natural empathy Princeton Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $15.61 author entry at Wikipedia • author homepage at Emory Univ. |
 | "The Cambridge Companion To Atheism" [2006] Edited by Michael Martin Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $20.71 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [10/2006] for $61.50 |
 | "Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault On Religious Freedom" [2006] by Barry W. Lynn Harmony 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $16.32 |
 | "Welcome To Doomsday" [2006] by Bill Moyers, Preface by Bill McKibben New York Review Books 7x5¾ pb [10/2006] for $7.95 |
 | "With God On Our Side: One Man's War Against An Evangelical Coup In America's Military" [2006] by Michael L. Weinstein & Davin Seay
Thomas Dunne Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $17.13 |
 | "Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" [2006] by Brooke Allen Ivan R. Dee pb [10/2007] for $14.95 Ivan R. Dee 8½x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.72 |
 | "Undermining Science: Suppression & Distortion In The Bush Administration" [2007] by Seth Shulman
Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $16.47 |
 | "God: The Failed Hypothesis - How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist" [2007] by Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus Books hardcover [1/2007] for $19.32 |
 | "American Fascists: The Christian Right & The War On America" [2007] by Chris Hedges Free Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [1/2007] for $14.99 see also Working Minds Philosophy's Barbarians & Fascists Pages |
 | "A Secular Age" [2007] by Charles Taylor
Belknap Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [9/2007] for $26.37 |
 | "The Voyage of The Beetle: A Journey Around The World With Charles Darwin" [ages 9 & up; 2007] by Anne H. Weaver, Illustrated by George Lawrence Narrator Rosie the Beetle accompanies Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world; book won the 2008 Zia Award and the New Mexico State Library Book of The Year Award official book site Univ New Mexico Press 10¼x7½ hardcover [10/2007] for $17.05 |
 | "Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault On Science Threatens Your Health" [2008] by David Michaels
Oxford Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $18.45 |
 | "Icons of Unbelief: Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists" textbook [2008] Edited by S. T. Joshi Kindle Edition from Greenwood Press [10/2008] for $78.85 {sic} Greenwood Press 10x7¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $83.00 {sic} entries on 27 iconic figures of unbelief, including Charles Bradlaugh, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, The Existentialists, The Founding Fathers, Sigmund Freud, Sam Harris, Thomas Henry Huxley, Robert G. Ingersoll, H.P. Lovecraft, H.L. Mencken, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, and Voltaire |
 | "Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip To The Battlegrounds of The Church/State Wars" [2009] by Jay Wexler Beacon Press 8½x5½ pb [6/2009] for $13.60 author's official website |
 | "Merchants of Doubt: How A Handful of Scientists Obscured The Truth On Issues From Tobacco Smoke To Global Warming" [2010] by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway Bloomsbury Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [5/2010] for $17.82 |
 | "The Invention of Religion" [2012] by Alexander Drake Kindle Edition from T.E.H.N.C. Press [4/2014] for $2.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2012] for $7.99 |
 | "Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and The Rise of The Anti-Scientific Left" [9/2012] by Alex B. Berezow & Hank Campbell selective use of facts greatly undermines their claim that progressives have a pervasive anti-science bias — DO NOT READ OR BUY THIS BOOK |
 | "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" [2015] by Kevin M. Kruse America's corporations and Wall Street began the false history that the United States is (always has been) a Christian nation as a strategy during the 1930s to fight Roosevelt's New Deal; the project succeeded when Eisenhower became President, in parallel with the 'red scares' of Sen. Joseph McCarthy Kindle Edition from Basic Books/Hachette [4/2015] for $11.99 Basic Books 9¼x6 pb [5/2016] for $12.34 Basic Books hardcover [4/2015] for $20.39 |
 | "Inventing A Christian America: The Myth of The Religious Founding" [2015] by Steven K. Green Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [6/2015] for $24.49 {sic} Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2015] for $25.88 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [7/2015] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press hardcover [7/2015] out of print/used |
 | "The End of White Christian America" [2016] by Robert P. Jones Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [7/2016] for $14.99 Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [7/2016] for $19.01 |
Books About Evolution {versus The Creationism Fallacy}
 | "On Evolution: The Development of The Theory of Natural Selection" [orig 1859] by Charles Darwin, edited by Thomas F. Glick & David Kohn Hackett Publng 9x6 pb [10/96] for $13.45 Hackett Publng 9x6 hardcover [10/96] for $39.95 see also Maison d'Ętre Bookstore's Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page |
 | "Inherit The Wind" playscript [1955] by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee The Scopes vs. State of Kentucky 'monkey trial' of 1925 was a sensational debate over Darwinian evolution and the first U.S. trial broadcast on national radio. The play's Henry Drummond lawyer character was modelled on Clarence Darrow, lawyer Matthew Harrison Brady was modelled on politician William Jennings Bryan, and the E.K. Horn-beck reporter character was modelled on H.L. Mencken. Ballantine mass pb [11/2003] for $6.99 Dramatists Play Service 8x5¼ pb [1/96] for $6.50 |
 | United Artists October 1960 feature film Directed by Stanley Kramer; script by Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith, based on the 1955 play; starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr. & Norman Fell; Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Script, Best Actor {Tracy}, Best Cinematography & Best Editing, BAFTA noms for Best Film & Best Actors (Tracy & March} • full credits at IMDb M.G.M. b&w DVD [11/2001] for $10.99 M.G.M. b&w VHS [2/97] out of stock/many used |
 | "Evolution: The History of An Idea" [1984] by Peter J. Bowler Univ CA Press 9x6 3rd edition pb [7/2003] for $24.95 | |
 | "The Blind Watchmaker: Why The Evidence of Evolution Reveals A Universe Without Design" [1988 classic] by Richard Dawkins
W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [9/96] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 8¼x6 hardcover [1/88] out of print/used author's official website | |
 | "Blueprints: Solving The Mystery of Evolution" [1989] by Maitland A. Edey & Donald C. Johanson Penguin 9¼x6¼ pb [6/90] out of print/many used Little, Brown hardcover [3/92] out of print/many used | |
 | "Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human" [1992] by Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin Anchor 9x6 pb [10/93] for $11.87 Doubleday 9¾x6½ hardcover [10/92] out of print/used | |
 | "What Evolution Is" [2001] by Ernst Mayr, Foreword by Jared Diamond Kindle Edition from Basic Books [2001 edition] for $11.19 Basic Books 8x5¼ pb [10/2002] for $12.46 Basic Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/many, many used | |
 | "Introducing Evolution" [2001] by Dylan Evans & Howard Selina Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [11/2005] for $11.01 Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [12/2001] for $11.95 | |
 | "Extinction: Evolution & The End of Man" [2002] by Michael Boulter Columbia Univ Press 8.2x6.6 hardcover [11/2002] for $26.00 | |
 | "Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of The New Creationism" [2004] Edited by Matt Young & Taner Edis
Rutgers Univ Press 9x8½ pb [3/2006] for $24.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2004] for $34.43 | |
 | "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage To The Dawn of Evolution" [2004] by Richard Dawkins "thrilling & entertaining"; "a magnum opus" Mariner 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2005] for $10.88 Houghton Mifflin 9.4x6¼ hardcover [10/2004] for $18.48 author's official website | |
 | "Evolution: The Remarkable History of A Scientific Theory" [2004] by Edward J. Larson RH/Modern Library 7¼x5 hardcover [5/2005] for $15.61 Recorded Books audio [12/2004] out of print/used | |
 | "One Moment In Eternity: Human Evolution" [2005] by Eugene Minard, MD BookSurge Publng pb [6/2006] for $17.99 Hudson Books 8¼x5½ pb [7/2005] for $10.85 | |
 | "Intelligent Thought: Science versus The Intelligent Design Movement" [2006] Edited by science writer John Brockman sixteen essays by contributors that include: Scott Atran, Jerry A. Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Marc D. Hauser, Nicholas Humphrey, Stuart A. Kauffman, Seth Lloyd, psychologist Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, geologist Scott D. Sampson, Neil H. Shubin, Lee Smolin, Frank J. Sulloway, Leonard Susskind, and paleontologist Tim D. White Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [12/2007] for $11.99 Vintage Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2006] for $14.36 | |
 | "Evolution: A Scientific American Reader" [2006]
by Editors of Scientific American Magazine Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $14.96 Univ Chicago Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $65.00 | |
 | "The Science of Evolution and The Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real & Why It Matters" [2006] by Ardea Skybreak
Insight Press 10x7 pb [9/2006] for $18.96 Insight Press 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $29.70 | |
 | "After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination" [2006] by Kirkpatrick Sale Duke Univ Press pb [11/2006] for $13.57 Duke Univ Press hardcover [11/2006] for $69.95 | |
 | "The Politically Incorrect Guide To Darwinism and Intelligent Design" [4/2007] by Jonathan Wells, PhD More accurate title for this series is 'Incorrect Guide'; book contains right-wing propaganda with no relation to reality – you should not buy or read this garbage. | |
 | "Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution In Human D.N.A." [2007] by Daniel J. Fairbanks
Kindle Edition from Prometheus Books [3/2010] for $10.19 Prometheus Books 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $12.03 Prometheus Books 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] for $15.33 | |
 | "Science, Evolution, and Creationism" [2008] by the National Academy of Sciences [est. 1863] and the Institute of Medicine [est. 1970]
Kindle Edition from National Academies Press [3/2013] for $11.99 National Academies Press 10x8 pb [1/2008] for $12.74 National Academies Press 10x8 pb [1/2008] out of print/used | |
 | "Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859" [orig 1996, expanded 2008] Edited by Frederick Burkhardt Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $18.48 see also Maison d'Ętre Bookstore's Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page | |
 | "Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1860-1870" [2008] Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Allison M. Pearn & Samantha Evans Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $20.44 see also Maison d'Ętre Bookstore's Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page | |
 | "Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters" [2008] Edited by Frederick Burkhardt Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2008] for $21.12 see also Maison d'Ętre Bookstore's Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page | |
 | "The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution" [2009 bestseller] by Richard Dawkins Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital [9/2009] for $14.99 Free Press pb [8/2010] for $11.55 Free Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2009] for $19.80 author's official website | |
 | "Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came To Be" [grades 3-8; 2010] Written & illustrated by Daniel Loxton Kids Can Press 11¼x8¾ hardcover [2/2010] for $14.27 Kids Can Press 11¼x8¾ hardcover [2/2010] out of print/used | |
 | "The Three Failures of Creationism: Logic, Rhetoric, and Science" [2012] by Walter M. Fitch [1929-2011] Kindle Edition from Univ California Press [3/2012] for $14.97 Univ California Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/2012] for $22.46 | |
 | "Children of Time: Evolution and The Human Story" [ages 7-15; 2012] by Anne H. Weaver, Illustrated by Matt Celeskey Each carefully-researched chapter is based on an actual child fossil – a baby, a five-year- old, a young adolescent, teenagers – and the children and their families are brought to life through text and illustrations. • official book site Kindle Edition from Univ New Mexico Press [4/2012] for $13.99 Univ New Mexico Press 9½x8½ hardcover [4/2012] for $21.55 | |
 | "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" [9/2012] by Thomas Nagel Book does not actually address the subtitle; the content is false, based on spurious teleologic reasoning — DO NOT READ OR BUY THIS BOOK | |
 | "Human Evolution" wall chart poster
no longer available at AllPosters (and besides that, they closed their affiliates program in June 2015) | |
 | "Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived" [2013] by Chip Walter At least 25 other species of human are gone, yet homo sapiens is the dominant species on the planet. How did this happen – and what might be next? Kindle Edition from Walker Books [1/2013] for $9.99 Walker & Co. 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2013] for $15.29 | |
 | "Undeniable: Evolution and The Science of Creation" [2014] by Bill Nye, Edited by Corey S. Powell Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [11/2014] for $9.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [9/2015] for $13.48 St. Martin's Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/2014] for $14.55 | |
 | "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" [2017] by Peter S. Ungar Kindle Edition from Princeton Univ Press [4/2017] for $15.37 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6¼hardcover [5/2017] for $18.97 | |
 | "Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and The Future of Evolution" [2017] by Jonathan B. Losos Kindle Edition from Riverhead/Penguin [8/2017] for $14.99 Riverhead Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2017] for $18.28 | |
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"Das Virus In Uns: Motor der Evolution (The Virus Within Us: Engine of Evolution)" [2020] by Kurt Langbein & Elisabeth Tschachler German-language book; the authors describe how around 50 percent of our genetic material comes from viruses, and the effects on human evolution; they go on to describe the origin and evolution of the recent Wuhan coronavirus and the ensuing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. German-language Kindle Edition from Molden Verlag [9/2020] for $23.99 German-language Molden Verlag 8½x5¼ hardcover [9/2020] for $26.82 |
Selected Movies and Television
 | "Evolution: A Journey Into Where We're From and Where We're Going" TV mini-series [P.B.S./NOVA/WGBH-TV Boston 2001] 8-hour P.B.S. seven-part TV mini-series, the episodes are: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (two hours); "Great Transformations"; "Extinction!"; "The Evolutionary Arms Race"; "Why Sex?"; "The Mind's Big Bang"; and "What About God?" narrated by Liam Neeson; featured experts include Susan Blackmore, Sean B. Carroll, Jenny Clack, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Robin Dunbar, Stephen Jay Gould, William McGinnis, James Moore, Simon Conway Morris, Walter Gehring, Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Neil Shubin, E.O. Wilson, Richard Wrangham P.B.S. Home Video color DVD set [11/2001] 4 disks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • P.B.S. official moviesite • movie entry at Wikipedia "Evolution" 7-part TV series with 2-hour "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial" [2007] from "NOVA" P.B.S. Home Video color DVD set [11/2001] 5 disks for $42.20 |
 | "A War On Science" [U.K. Jan 2006] episode of the B.B.C. "Horizon" TV series 49-minute TV documentary about intelligent design, including the Kitzmiller v. Dover court battle; produced & written by James Van Der Pool; narrated by Bill Paterson; featuring Michael Behe, Prof. Barbara Forrest, Prof. Kenneth Miller, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins DVD/Blu-ray not available • bare credits at IMDb watch full episode - framed, strange audio [2/2016 upload; 44:57] online at YouTube |
 | "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" [indep April 2008] Directed by Nathan Frankowski; featuring Ben Stein & Jason Collett Author Ben Stein proves himself an idiot in this propaganda for the intelligent design scam. Science requires evidence, there is only crackpot screed in this movie. — DO NOT SEE OR BUY THIS BILGE! |
 | "The Revisionaries" documentary [Kino Lorber Oct 2012] "An enthralling look at the resistance to the theory of evolution among prominent members of the Texas Board of Education"; announced 7/2012: will open nationwide in early October, with Independent Lens (P.B.S.) broadcasting the film in early 2013, when it will also be released on DVD and across all major digital platforms • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Scott Thurman; featuring creationist Don McLeroy, anti-education fundamentalist Cynthia Dunbar, progressive activist Kathy Miller, and scientist Ron Wetherington; won a Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival Kino Lorber Films widescreen color DVD [4/2013] for $17.35 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 4/2012 trailer [2:04] at YouTube |
 | "God's Not Dead" Xian movie [Pure Flix March 2014] A college professor requires students to deny the existence of God in order to continue in his philosophy class; one student will not, so he is asked to prepare a defense of his position. {Has gigantic holes in the plot, as well as in the 'Xian apologetics' attempt to refute objective reality.} • Filmed in twenty days, costing $2M; domestic box-office gross was $60M, world-wide gross was $140M. Location filming in Louisiana, Michigan, Downtown Los Angeles, and Houston, Texas. Co-produced & co-written by Chuck Konzelman & Cary Solomon; directed by Harold Cronk; co-written by Hunter Dennis; starring Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A.R. White, Dean Cain, Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson, Hadeel Sittu, Paul Kwo, Trisha LaFache, Cory Oliver, Benjamin A. Onyango, Marco Khan, Cassidy Gifford, Jesse Wang, Lenore Banks, Russell Wolfe, Alex Aristidis, and The Newsboys Xian band (Michael Tait, Duncan Phillips, Jeff Frankenstein, Jody Davis) Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2016] 2 disks for $12.96 Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [2/2016] for $7.50 Pure Flix widescreen color DVD [8/2014] for $17.85 full credits at IMDb • official multi-movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 10/2013 trailer #1 [2:45] • 2/2014 trailer #2 [2:50] |
 | "God's Not Dead 2" sequel Xian movie [Pure Flix April 2016] Repeated pro-Xian comments in class by a high school history teacher lead to parental complaints, censure by the school board, and suspension; a trial over the actions taken by the school board results in the jury finding for the teacher. (Several issues are unresolved and are expected to be plot elements of "God's Not Dead 3", scheduled for release in 2018.) • Filmed in Little Rock, Arkansas; est. budget was $5M, domestic box-office gross was $20.7M. Co-produced & co-written by Chuck Konzelman & Cary Solomon; directed by Harold Cronk; starring Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Maria Canals-Barrera, Pat Boone, Robin Givens, Brad Heller, Ernie Hudson, Hayley Orrantia, Paul Kwo, Trisha LaFache, Jon Lindstrom, Benjamin A. Onyango, Sadie Robertson, Carey Scott, Fred Dalton Thompson, David A.R. White, Ray Wise, Tommy Blaze, Rice Broocks, Mallory Hardin Brooks, Natalie Canerday, Ron Clemens, Verda Davenport, Abigail Duhon, Taylor Eaves, Kayla Esmond, Mary Faulkner, Gary Habermas, Lauren Harper, Candyce Hinkle, Mike Huckabee, Andres Hudson, Mark Whitman Johnson, Travis McCoy, Eamonn McCrystal, Gary Newton, Vivian Norman, Chanley Painter, Taylor Quick, Paige Martin Reynolds, Gianna Simone, John Stiritz, Lee Strobel, Ryk St. Vincent, J. Warner Wallace, Jesse Wang, and The Newsboys Xian band (Michael Tait, Duncan Phillips, Jeff Frankenstein, Jody Davis) Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray/DVD/Ultraviolet combo [8/2016] 2 disks for $11.99 Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [8/2016] for $9.38 full credits at IMDb • official multi-movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 11/2015 official trailer [2:28] online at YouTube |
"God's Not Dead" / "God's Not Dead 2" Value Pack DVD Sets [2016]
Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [8/2016] 2 disks for $13.99
Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [8/2016] 2 disks for $15.49
Universal Studios Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [10/2017] 2 disks for $22.98
 | "God's Not Dead 3" sequel Xian movie [Pure Flix April 2018]
Co-produced & co-written by Chuck Konzelman & Cary Solomon; starring Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, Marcia Gay Harden, David A.R. White, Thomas Jane DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official multi-movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia {empty} watch 6/2017 official teaser trailer [1:06] at YouTube |
Interesting how fundamentalist Xians love their fictional court victories (as above)
and keep losing their battles against separation of church and state in the real world (as below).
Trial At Dover, PA
The Dover Area [Pennsylvania] School District Board of Education passed a resolution on 18 October 2004 requiring teachers of biology to read a statement aloud to students when covering evolution: "Students will be made aware of the gaps/problems in Darwin's theory and [made aware] of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design". The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on 14 December 2004 on behalf of eleven parents from the Dover school district. The trial began on 26 September 2005 and lasted 40 days; Judge John Edward Jones III delivered his decision on December 20, finding for the plaintiffs; the school board was ordered to repay plaintiff's court costs (the $1M sum was actually about half) and recommended that several individuals on the defense side be investigated for perjury.
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District entry at Wikipedia
 | "Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and The Battle For America's Soul" [2007] by Edward Humes
Kindle Edition from HarperCollins [10/2009] for $10.99 Harper Perennial 8x5¾ pb [2/2008] for $15.17 Ecco Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $18.32 |
 | "40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities On Trial In Pennsylvania" [2007] by Matthew Chapman The author is a great-great-grandson of Darwin, and a screenwriter, and his in-depth examination of the individuals of the town of Dover, Pennsylvania is scary and funny and revealing. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins [10/2009] for $11.99 Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $16.95 Harper 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial" [2007] episode on "NOVA" 112-minute docudrama about the 40-day trial after the Dover [PA] school board passed a resolution requiring teachers of biology to equate the bogus religious concept of intelligent design with the proven scientific theory of evolution • Co-directed & written by Joseph McMaster; co-directed by Gary Johnstone; narrated by Jay O. Sanders; starring Jay Benedict {as Judge Jones} • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [2/2008] for $13.42 P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [2/2008] for $35.55 "Evolution" 7-part TV series with 2-hour "Judgment Day" [NOVA 2007] P.B.S. Home Video color DVD set [11/2001] 5 disks for $42.20 |
 | "The Battle Over The Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and A School Board In Dover, PA" [2007] by Gordy Slack
Kindle Edition from Jossey-Bass [2007 edition] for $13.69 Jossey-Bass 9x6 pb [4/2008] for $14.41 Jossey-Bass 9½x6¼ pb [5/2007] out of print/used |
 | "The Devil In Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin In Small-Town America" [2008] by Lauri Lebo
Kindle Edition from The New Press [3/2009] for $9.99 The New Press 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2009] for $16.04 The New Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [5/2008] out of print/many used |
Classic Books To Modern Times
{ from 1795 to 2004 }
 | "The Age of Reason: Being An Investigation of True & Fabulous Theology" [1795 classic] by Thomas Paine [1737-1809] Cosimo 8x5 pb [6/2005] for $6.45 Digiread 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $6.49 online etext: Part I & Part II |
 | "Religion and Science" [1935 classic] by Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
Oxford Univ Press pb [5/97] for $10.37 Oxford Univ Press mass pb [5/97] out of print/used Audio Scholar audio CD [6/94] for $21.33 see also Maison d'Ętre Bookstore's Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] Page |
 | "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1962 classic] by Thomas S. Kuhn [1922-96] Univ Chicago Press 8x5¼ 3rd edition pb [12/96] for $10.01 Univ Chicago Press 3rd edition hardcover [12/96] for $33.00 online study guide at Emory University |
 | TIME Magazine Cover Story "Is God Dead?" in the 8 April 1966 issue text of cover story at TIME Magazine website |
 | "The Five Thousand Year Leap: 28 Great Ideas That Changed The World" [1980] by anti-Communist flake W. Cleon Skousen [1913-2006] This idiocy is blasphemy to the U.S. Constitution, or maybe just treasonous, since the premise is that the United States is a Christian (ONLY) nation, and all non-Christians are the enemy (or is it that all opposition to such fundamentalist/fascist screed is anti-Christian?). And the new Foreword by TV rabble-rouser Glenn Beck defines the market that it is intended for. — Sentient beings will not buy this book! |
 | "Extinction: The Causes & Consequences of The Disappearance of Species" [1981] by Paul & Anne Ehrlich Ballantine pb [4/83] out of print/used Random House hardcover [4/81] out of print/many used |
 | "The Battle For God" [2000] by Karen Armstrong Ballantine 8½x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.85 Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [3/2000] for $26.60 |
 | "The Founding Fathers and The Place of Religion In America" [2003] by Frank Lambert Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2003] for $32.95 |
 | "Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human" [2003] by Matt Ridley HarperCollins pb [4/2004] out of stock/used HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2003] for $16.35 |
 | "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & The Future of Reason" [2004 New York Times bestseller] by Sam Harris winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Non-Fiction W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [10/2005] for $9.76 W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2004] for $16.47 author website |
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