Litsy

Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in Which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century | Jerome Lawrence, Robert E Lee

#BasedOnTrueStory Spent my birthday exploring nearby Dayton Tennessee, site of the famous trial which found John T. Scopes guilty of illegally teaching evolution in 1925. A cautionary tale where too much sounds too familiar today. Drove by the courthouse and found this charming shop (Pizza, Books, & Ice Cream). #Aboutabook @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

lynneamch More info in case you're unfamiliar https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/scopes-monkey-trial/#....
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Eggs Lovely photos! A few years back I attended the play performed in a county courthouse - so amazing 4mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time | Michael Shermer

#NewYearNewBooks #WhyInTitle

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Looks so interesting 🥰 10mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs I was a whole other person when I read this back in the 20th century🤣😂 But from what I remember - it was very interesting! 10mo

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Sharpeipup

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation | Bill Nye

Bill Nye for the win!
It was funny, educational, and necessary for our times.
#2023readingbracket

TLuvs I love this bracket idea! Did you pull a blank template of the internet and then plug in your book choices? 2y

BethM I read this a few years ago and liked it! 2y

Sharpeipup @tluvs I cannot take credit for the bracket. The praise belongs to @chasjjlee 2y

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Sharpeipup

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation | Bill Nye

A love story that started with a book. Has anyone else heard this?

https://www.brides.com/bill-nye-and-liza-mundy-wedding-5496345

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jenniferw88

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker | A.N. Wilson

#bookreport @Cinfhen

Finished tagged
Continued Count & Melmoth
Started Emma & Kindred

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Oooh, Kindred sounds good! I‘ll be adding that one to my stack! 😍 2y

Cinfhen Looks like you had a productive reading week ❤️ 2y

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jenniferw88

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker | A.N. Wilson

#naturalitsybingo2023 @AllDebooks

#evolution #biography

AllDebooks Yay 🙌 Did you enjoy it? I have this biography to read, somewhere 2y

jenniferw88 @AllDebooks it's OK, was getting a bit slow towards the end - it definitely could be edited down a bit! 2y

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jenniferw88

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker | A.N. Wilson

so-so

#atyin52books23 @BarbaraBB #relatedtoscience

Darwin visited the Tierra del Fuego archipelago whilst on HMS Beagle, which does #argentina for #readingtheamericas2023 @Librarybelle

#doublespin for February read! @TheAromaofBooks

I won't be reading Darwin's autobiography after reading this - it's apparently full of inaccuracies.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y

Librarybelle Interesting to note about Darwin‘s autobiography! 2y

jenniferw88 @Librarybelle basically he doesn't credit any of his predecessors/contemporaries - including his own grandfather (!) - on helping him come up with the theory of evolution. It's 'MY theory this' & 'MY theory that'. He does acknowledge that both Alfred Russel Wallace & he did come up with the idea independently of each other though, so that's something! 😂 @AllDebooks 2y

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AllDebooks @jenniferw88 I don't suppose there was any way he could deny ARW's work😅 2y

Librarybelle Wow! Totally did not know that! 2y

BarbaraBB Interesting! 2y

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jenniferw88

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker | A.N. Wilson