Ride to Glory: The People v. Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Darwin described his theory as "a mere rag of any hypotheses with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts." "Ride to Glory" exposes flagrant examples of those flaws in a mock trial that rocks the rural campus setting of a fictitious Maryland university. The question posed to the jury in the stated performance: "Is Evolution a Fact?" In an intellectual free-for-all, gutsy Ph.D. candidate and star witness, Joshua Chamberlain Ryan, thumbs his nose at Darwinian speculations, incurring the wrath of his major Professor, Karl Striker, devout defender of mega-evolution. The author/lawyer makes skillful use of precisely endnoted, authentic, academic source materials to make the case.