Several books about the trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, about the teaching of "intelligent design" have appeared in recent years. Before that there were books on earlier trials, and there will certainly be others in the future, as Dover is very unlikely to be the last. Most of these are designed to appeal to a broad audience, and concentrate much more on the personalities involved than on the science or the history. So far as the science is concerned, Sahotra Sarkar's book Doubting Darwin: Creationist Designs on Evolution (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series) is an excellent source, but as the topic is by no means new it is also useful to have a detailed and thoughtful account of how we got where we are now, and this is what Peter Bowler provides.