By M.G. Lord

February 8, 2009
Thank God for Evolution

How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

Michael Dowd

Viking: 432 pp., $24.95

Evolution

The First Four Billion Years

Edited by Michael Ruse

and Joseph Travis

Belknap Press: 1,008 pp., $39.95

Only a Theory

Evolution and the Battle

for America's Soul

Kenneth R. Miller

Viking: 256 pp., $25.95

Darwin's Sacred Cause

How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

Adrian Desmond and James Moore

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 486 pp., $30

Darwin