Matthew Chapman, the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, describes the Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education with wit, wisdom, and surprising objectivity. His account of the legal proceedings is nicely counterbalanced by his interviews of the individuals involved, most of whom he admits to liking personally even when he disagrees with their intellectual positions.

In spite of Chapman’s affable nature, the predominant theme of this book is the disturbing portrait of the Intelligent Design proponents, who stand prepared to cloak and distort evidence of evolution and accepted scientific methods and principles in order to sneak creationism into the classroom.