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Darwin Strikes Back: Defining the Science of Intelligent Design -Thomas Woodward
Darwin Strikes Back: Defining the Science of Intelligent Design -Thomas Woodward
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What started as a debate among scientists has become a full-scale public battle. In this sequel to his award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Thomas Woodward traces the struggle that has emerged as the two sides wrestle with questions of the origin of life. Woodward answers these questions and more:
* Who are the key players on each side, and what contributions have they made?
Product Details
Catalogue Code 247864
Product Code 0801065631
EAN 9780801065637
Pages 224
Department Academic
Category Science
Sub-Category General
Publisher Baker Book House
Publication Date Nov 2006
Dimensions 215 x 139 x 15 mm
Weight 0.275kg
In 2004 Thomas Woodward published Doubts about Darwin, a survey of the beginning of the Intelligent Design Movement (IDM) in the mid 1980s and its subsequent development. Woodward's training in the history of science and in communications brought a unique feature to the book. Rather than discussing the intricate scientific arguments favoring or opposing macroevolution, he traced the history of the conflict and the relevance and soundness (or lack of soundness) of the arguments. Although a naturalistic evolutionist in college, during those years Woodward came to belief in Christ, but still accepted macroevolution. Michael Denton's groundbreaking work (Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, 1986) dislodged his thinking and set him on the path to ID. He soon became familiar with the leading lights of the new IDM, and as a historian kept careful records. In Doubts about Darwin Woodward described the beginning and development of the IDM, and identified its major players.Of course, the ID writers soon attracted fierce opposition from macro evolutionists. This opposition, along with the growing popularity of the movement, led to protracted conflicts, including legal conflicts over the teaching of evolution or of ID in public schools. Woodward's Darwin Strikes Back is his chronological analysis of the escalating debate and controversy. Woodward surveys these conflicts from the 1990s through 2006, emphasizing developments since 1996. During this last decade the stakes have become higher, and the attacks by Darwinists have become fiercer.
This book is helpful in tracing the history of the conflict centering around each of the major writers in the IDM--Michael Denton, Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Jay Richards, and several others. Woodward devotes an entire chapter each to Behe, Wells, and Dembski; he details the opposing scholars and their attacks against the ID position in each case.
Separate chapters spell out major areas of discovery related to the IDM, including the history of the arguments pro and con related to each topic. These major subjects are covered: the relation of ID to religion and the naturalistic approach to science, the meaning and significance of biologically irreducible complexity, the continuing use of the discredited "icons of evolution," the Cambrian explosion, the origin of life puzzle (one chapter on historical background and another on recent developments), information theory and discernable evidences of design (Dembski's "complex specified information"), and non-ID allies from the fields of astronomy and cosmology. Woodward concludes with a chapter evaluating the current situation. He is optimistic that the truth will out. He believes that life and its complexity and obvious design will keep asserting itself and eventually will overcome the Darwinian paradigm, especially if free discussion and research will continue.
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