Burton P Brodt

The Monkey Wars: the Battle Between Darwinists and Creationists Burton P Brodt

Publisher Marketing: "This satirical tale lampooning bigotry takes on the thorny debate between evolutionism and creationism, spanning three quarters of the twentieth century in America, from the Scopes Trial in 1925 to the recent past. Theories of our human origins come and go, it seems, but intolerance and bigotry remain. The story begins with the Scopes Trial (or reactions to it), which established that teaching evolution was illegal. The novel ends with another trial, almost a mirror image of the Scopes Trial, which establishes Darwinism as the only creation theory that may be taught legally "The issue of creationism versus Darwinism is not really at stake, and the author does not try to prove that either is right or wrong. What is wrong is pigheadedness. Freedom of expression, even in the classroom, is very much at stake in this novel, and no religious or scientific clique has a right to stifle it. This novel is saying that when it comes to bigotry, the scientific community can be just as guilty as the religious community. "Part satire, part philosophical puzzle, part courtroom drama, this experimenetal novel is told in several styles from several points of view. It is sure to be controversial. Whatever one's beliefs (or rigid rejection of beliefs), this is a novel to make you think."