Creationism's Trojan Horse The Wedge of Intelligent Design

by Forrest, Barbara; Gross, Paul R.

• ISBN13: 9780195319736
• ISBN10: 0195319737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This carefully documented expose of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement contributed to the stunning victory in Federal court of eleven Dover, PA, parents who recognized ID's threat to public education and religious freedom. Now in paperback, here is Forrest and Gross's influential work documenting the continuity of intelligent design with traditional creationism. The new text updates ID initiatives in Kansas and Ohio and the movement's shifting strategies in an attempt to remain viable after its legal undoing in federal court. Anyone who values science and the benefits of life in an enlightened society should know about the Wedge's political, cultural, and religious ambitions. With a new foreword by Barry Lynn, this updated edition is an essential guide to ID's continuing threat to public education and the separation of church and state. It is the book to turn to for an inside look at the claims and operations of the ID movement, the most recent manifestation of American creationism.

Author Biography

Barbara Forrest is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana University. She was a key witness for the prosecution in the recent highly publicized trial in Pennsylvania, where the judge banned the teaching of Intelligent Design in science classrooms. Paul R. Gross is University Professor of Life Sciences Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
How the Wedge Began	p. 15
The Wedge Document: A Design for Design	p. 25
Searching for the Science	p. 35
Paleontology Lite and Copernican Discoveries	p. 49
A Conspiracy Hunter and a Newton	p. 85
Everything Except Science I	p. 147
Everything Except Science II	p. 179
Wedging into Power Politics	p. 215
Religion First-and Last	p. 257
Afterword: Update on the Wedge	p. 317
Notes	p. 339
Index	p. 411
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