Matthew Chapman - 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania

PLAINTIFFS

T AMMY K ITZMILLER Lead plaintiff, mother of two girls in Dover High.

A RALENE B ARRIE C ALLAHAN Exschool board member, mother of three children, one in Dover High.

F RED C ALLAHAN Local businessman, husband of Barrie Callahan.

B RYAN R EHM Science teacher at Dover High.

C HRISTIE R EHM Teacher at a local school, Bryan Rehms wife.

B ETH E VELAND Legal assistant to a local attorney, mother of two.

C INDY S NEATH Co-owner of an appliance repair shop, Tammy Kitzmillers neighbor, mother of two.

J ULIE S MITH Medical technologist, divorced mother of two, one daughter in tenth grade at Dover High.

S TEVE S TOUGH Teacher and coach, parent of a daughter in eighth grade at Dover High.

J OEL L IEB Teacher, family in Dover since its earliest beginnings.

D EB F ENIMORE Lived with Joel Lieb, worked at a youth advocacy program, mother of a child by Joel.

SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

A LAN B ONSELL Owner of a local auto repair shop, property owner/ developer, Protestant fundamentalist, prointelligent design and creationism.

B ILL B UCKINGHAM Retired cop and corrections officer, Protestant fundamentalist, prointelligent design and creationism.

S HEILA H ARKINS Property owner/developer, Quaker, prointelligent design.

H EATHER G EESEY Wife and full-time mother, prointelligent design.

J ANE C LEAVER Retired owner of a five-and-dime, prointelligent design.

A NGIE Y INGLING Owner of a local auto repair shop, property owner/ developer, Marilyn Monroe fan, had shifting views.

N OEL W ENRICH Creationist, eventually opposed intelligent design.

J EFF B ROWN Electrician, Sunday School teacher, Protestant, antiintelligent design.

C AROL C ASEY B ROWN Former reporter for local paper, degree in education, wife of Jeff Brown, Protestant, antiintelligent design.

LAWYERS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS

E RIC R OTHSCHILD Lead attorney for the plaintiffs, corporate litigator at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.

S TEVE H ARVEY Eric Rothschilds co-counsel, also of Pepper Hamilton.

W ITOLD V IC W ALCZAK Head of the Pennsylvania ACLU, based in Pittsburgh.

R ICHARD K ATSKEE Lawyer from Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

T HOMAS S CHMIDT Pepper Hamilton attorney.

LAWYERS FOR THE DEFENSE

R ICHARD T HOMPSON Head of the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Dover Area School District; attorney for the defense.

P ATRICK G ILLEN Lead attorney for the defense.

R OBERT M UISE Attorney for the defense.

E DWARD W HITE IIIAttorney for the defense.

EXPERT WITNESSES

For the Plaintiffs

K EN M ILLER Professor of biology at Brown University, co-author of Biology .

R OBERT P ENNOCK Professor at Michigan State University, degrees in biology and philosophy.

J OHN H AUGHT Catholic theologian, recently retired from chairing the theology department at Georgetown University.

B ARBARA F ORREST Professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University, author of Creationisms Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design.

K EVIN P ADIAN Paleontologist, professor of integrative biology at the University of California in Berkeley, curator in the Museum of Paleontology, president of the National Center for Science Education.

B RIAN A LTERS Professor of science education at McGill University.

For the Defense

M ICHAEL B EHE Biologist, author of Darwins Black Box, proponent of intelligent design, and the man who allegedly coined the expression irreducible complexity.

S TEPHEN F ULLER Professor of sociology at the University of Warwick, England.

S COTT M INNICH Professor of microbiology at the University of Idaho.

OTHER PLAYERS

H EDYA A RYANI Legal assistant from Pepper Hamilton.

M ICHAEL B AKSA Dover assistant school superintendent.

H EIDI B ERNARD -B UBB Part-time local reporter. Covered early school board meetings.

W ILLIAM D EMBSKI One of the earliest fellows of the Discovery Institutes Center for Science and Culture.

R OBERT E SHBACH Biology teacher at Dover High.

K ATE H ENSON Legal assistant from Pepper Hamilton.

P AULA K NUDSEN Staff attorney at the ACLU in Harrisburg.

R OBERT L INKER Science teacher at Dover High.

J OE M ALDONADO Part-time local reporter. Covered early school board meetings.

N ICK M ATZKE Staffer at the National Center for Science Education and scientific adviser to the plaintiffs legal team.

M ATTHEW M C E LVENNY Technology specialist for the plaintiffs legal team.

S TEPHEN M EYER Founder of the Discovery Institutes Center for Science and Culture.

J EN M ILLER Biology teacher at Dover High.

R ICHARD N ILSEN Dover school superintendent.

E UGENIE S COTT Executive director of the National Center for Science Education, an organization that defends against attacks on evolution in schools.

B ERTHA B ERT S PAHR Head of the science department at Dover High, chemistry teacher at the school for forty-one years.

SCOPES TRIAL CHARACTERS

J OHN S COPES School teacher in Dayton, Tennessee; put on trial for teaching evolution in 1925.

C LARENCE D ARROW Defense lawyer for Scopes.

D UDLEY M ALONE Defense lawyer for Scopes.

W ILLIAM J ENNINGS B RYAN Fundamentalist exDemocratic Presidential candidate, on the team prosecuting Scopes.

THE JUDGE

J OHN J ONES III

I HOPE THE FACT that my great-great-grandfather was Charles Darwin will not deter you from reading this book. You might assume that my opinions are predict able and that a less biased, and therefore more suspenseful, account could be found elsewhere. The truth is that at the start of the trial I did believe creationism should be banned from high school science classes. By the end of it, however, I had been convinced by the intelligent design advocates that creationism in all its forms should be a mandatory part of every childs science education. My reasons for believing this are slightly different from theirs, but thats another storythe story of this book.

Being a descendent of Charles Darwin was not something I thought much about as I was growing up in Cambridge, England. The theory of evolution was accepted, and Darwin was a mere historical figure. If I did think about my connection to him, it was only negatively. Academic pressure on me was intense, and, at least in comparison with my ancestor, success was unlikely.

I was a child whose maximum attention span was approximately five seconds, a boy who refused to be educated and was kicked out of several schools, and a youth whose only academic achievement was a stunning lack of achievement. At the age of fifteen, when I was set free, I had not passed a single exam of any consequence. Soon after the school door slammed behind me, I rediscovered my curiosity.