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Adam Shapiro

Adam R. Shapiro is a Research Associate with the Science, Religion and Culture program at Harvard Divinity School. His first book is Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools. He’s on twitter @tryingbiology.

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Religion Dispatches
Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier to teach intelligent design in public schools. They have had some successes, and one big setback: in…
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Religion Dispatches
What does the Bible have in common with a raccoon, a Barrett M82 rifle, and square-dancing? Soon, like all these unlike things, the Bible may be part of the state of Tennessee’s official symbology…
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