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4. Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1997), pp. 18–19.
5. William R. Overton, “Memorandum Opinion of United States District Judge William R. Overton in McLean v. Arkansas, 5 January 1982,” in Langdon Gilkey (ed.), Creationism on Trial (New York: Harper & Row, 1985), pp. 280–83.
6. The amicus curiae brief is both concise (at 27 pages) and well documented (32 lengthy footnotes), and I discuss it at length in my book Why People Believe Weird Things, pp. 154–72.
7. Stephen Jay Gould, “Knight Takes Bishop,” Natural History (May 1986).
8. For a detailed account of the trial see: Burt Humburg and Ed Brayton, “Dover Decision—Design Denied: Report on Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District,” Skeptic Vol. 12, No. 2 (2006), pp. 23–29. Court documents are related materials may be found at the Web page for the National Center for Science Education: http://www.ncseweb.org/.
6. The Real Agenda
1. William Dembski, The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2004), p. 41.
2. Quoted in Steve Benen, “Science Test,” Church & State (July–August 2000). Available online at http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs7002.htm.
3. William Dembski, “Signs of Intelligence: A Primer on the Discernment of Intelligent Design,” Touchstone (1999), p. 84.
4. Quoted in Benen, “Science Test,” Church & State (July–August 2000).
5. Quoted in Jay Grelen, “Witnesses for the Prosecution,” World (November 30, 1996). Available online at http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/11-30-96/national_2.asp.
6. Wedge Document, Phase III. For an extensive discussion and reprinting of the Wedge Document see Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
7. Phillip Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000).
8. William Dembski, “Intelligent Design’s Contribution to the Debate over Evolution: A Reply to Henry Morris,” 2005. Available online at http://www.designinference.com/documents/2005.02.Reply_to_Henry_Morris.htm.
9. Dembski, Design Revolution, p. 319.
10. Paul Nelson statement available online at http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/49#more-49.
11. Quoted in “By Design: A Whitworth Professor Takes a Controversial Stand to Show That Life Was No Accident. Stephen C. Meyer Profile,” Whitworth Today, Whitworth College, Winter 1995. Available online at http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_bydesign.htm.
12. Jodi Wilgoren, “Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive,” New York Times, August 21, 2005. The Discovery Institute is not alone. In Virginia, Liberty University sponsored the Creation Mega Conference with a Kentucky group called Answers in Genesis, which raised $9 million in 2003 for their efforts to teach biblical Young Earth Creationism. See “Major Grants Increase Programs, Nearly Double Discovery Budget,” Discovery Institute Journal (1999). Available online at http://www.discovery.org/w3/discovery.org/journal/1999/grants.html.
13. John Schwartz, “Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case against Evolution,” New York Times, May 28, 2005.
14. Christoph Schönborn, “Finding Design in Nature,” New York Times, July 7, 2005.
15. Bruce Chapman, “Ideas Whose Time Is Coming,” Discovery Institute Journal (Summer 1996). Available online at http://www.discovery.org/w3/discovery.org/journal/president.html.
16. Wilgoren, “Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive,” New York Times, August 21, 2005.
7. Why Science Cannot Contradict Religion
1. Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 3 vols. (London: John Murray, 1887), Vol. 2, p. 105.
2. Francis Darwin (ed.), Ibid., Vol. 1, pp. 280–81.
3. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: A Biography