ABSTRACT
Battles over ideas can be as bitter as battles for land, and they last much longer. Frontline fighters may have long forgotten what led to the taking up of arms, or pens, or the cudgel of law. Many in today’s creation-evolution battles have a pretty clear notion of their own concerns but murky images of their foes. The terrain between pitched camps, heavily mined and shrouded in battle smoke, may be hard to make out, let alone traverse. But the aim of this book is irenic, not polemical. It seeks the broad ground that separates but also links today’s extremes. What are the chances for peace? What options are open, beyond mutual erasure or annoyance? A little history might help in mapping the terrain.
