Bit of an aside - found myself by chance at Downe House today - didn't go round, but bought a possibly useful book in the shop, and took note of a more expensive one to order from the library.

Both books, on the dispute we've been having here (the main one, that is) were quite disturbing in revealing the lengths to which state authorities in the US will go to make sure that young people have no exposure to the teaching of evolution.

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