Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design

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Oxford University Press, 2007 - Religion - 432 pages
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.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
1 How the Wedge Began
15
A Design for Design
25
3 Searching for the Science
35
4 Paleontology Lite and Copernican Discoveries
49
5 A Conspiracy Hunter and a Newton
85
6 Everything Except Science I
147
7 Everything Except Science II
179
8 Wedging into Power Politics
215
9 Religion Firstand Last
257
Update on the Wedge
317
Notes
339
Index
411
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