Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
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Book Description
Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism. They examine the movement's "Wedge Strategy," which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research.
Analyzing the content and character of "intelligent design theory," they highlight its threat to public education and to the separation of church and state.
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Why We Wrote This Book
Religious  interference in American science and science education is an old story. But intelligent design proponents' cultivation of support for efforts to eliminate evolution from public school science, or to disparage it, and to secure recognition of creationists' claims of scientific legitimacy, are today enjoying unprecedented, nationwide success. For the first time, such claims seem to many lay observers to have become respectable. In fact, however, they are no more respectable as scholarly inquiry, or specifically as biological science, than were their discredited "creation science" predecessors. Unfortunately, this is not widely understood. Nor is the seamless continuity of "Intelligent Design Theory" with other recognized forms of creationism. Having examined in detail claims made by members of the "Wedge," we saw it as our professional and civic obligation to scholarship and science to prepare a fully documented account of their anti-evolution agenda. We came to understand that, for the well-being of science and science education, the seamless continuity of intelligent design and traditional creationism must be demonstrated for our colleagues and the knowledgeable public. The narrowness of Wedge strategists' religious aims, which do not reflect the values of the broader, more tolerant religious community, must be exposed, as must ID's pervasively sham methods of inquiry. People who value science and the benefits of life in an enlightened society must be alerted to the Wedge's political, cultural, and religious ambitions.
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design,Barbara Forrest,Paul R. Gross,Oxford University Press, USA,0195157427,Christianity,Christianity - Theology - General,Creationism,Creationism (Biology),Evolution (Biology),General,Intelligent design (Teleology),Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Religion And Science,Religious aspects,Science,Science/Mathematics,United States,Evolution,Life Sciences | Evolutionary Biology,Philosophy of science,Science / Evolution
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