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Why Darwin Matters_ The Case Against Intelligent Design - Michael Shermer [88]

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Michigan State University Press, 2003.

Davis, Percival William, and Dean Kenyon. Of Pandas and People. Dallas, Tex.: Haughton, 1993.

Dembski, William. The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Dembski, William. Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Dembski, William. No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Dembski, William. The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Denton, Michael. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. Bethesda, Md.: Adler and Adler, 1985.

Johnson, Phillip. Darwin on Trial. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1991.

Johnson, Phillip. Reason in the Balance: The Case against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1995.

Johnson, Phillip. Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997.

Johnson, Phillip. The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

Wells, Jonathan. Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach about Evolution Is Wrong. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2000.

Scientists and scholars began responding to Intelligent Design Creationism within a few years of the movement’s rise to prominence. Here is a short list of books that most capably refute the arguments of Intelligent Design, as well as expose at greater length the political and religious agenda behind the movement:

Dawkins, Richard. A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Forrest, Barbara, and Paul Gross. Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Miller, Kenneth. Finding Darwin’s God. New York: Perennial, 2000.

Pennock, Robert. Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.

Pennock, Robert, ed. Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

Perakh, Mark. Unintelligent Design. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Pigliucci, Massimo. Denying Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Sinauer, 2002.

Ruse, Michael. Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Ruse, Michael. The Evolution-Creation Struggle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Scott, Eugenie. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Shanks, Niall. God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Young, Matt, and Taner Edis, eds. Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

There are also substantial resources on the Internet regarding creationism and evolution:

Pro–Intelligent Design Web sites include:

Access Research Network: http://www.arn.org

Design Inference Web Site: http://www.designinference.com

Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture: http://www.discovery.org/csc

Evolution vs. Design: http://www.evidence.info/design/

God and Science: http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/

Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Club: http://www.ucsd.edu/~idea

Intelligent Design Network: http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org

Origins.org: http://www.origins.org/menus/design.html

Uncommon Descent: William Dembski’s weblog: http://www.uncommondescent.com/

Pro-Evolution Web sites include:

Anti-Evolutionists: http://www.antievolution.org/people/

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study: http://www.bscs.org

Evolution Project: http://www.pbs.org/evolution

Evolution, Science and Society:

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