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Scheidt's book shows how participation in a public, "the kind of public that comes into being only in relation to texts and their circulation," is fundamentally discursive.1 Scheidt did not interview atheists or send out a survey or conduct an ethnographic study of atheist organizations. Scheidt opens the chapter with a description of a 2014 debate about evolution, hosted by the Creation Museum, that pitted Bill Nye "The Science Guy" against Ken Ham, the evangelical creationist who founded the museum. The debate itself is interesting enough, but more so is Scheidt's analysis of such debates as "a site for the creation and circulation of culture" (102).