Creationism's Trojan horse [Elektronisk resurs] the wedge of intelligent design / by Barbara Forrest & Paul R. Gross.

• Introduction -- 1 How the Wedge Began -- 2 The Wedge Document: A Design for Design -- 3 Searching for the Science -- 4 Paleontology Lite and Copernican Discoveries -- 5 A Conspiracy Hunter and a Newton -- 6 Everything Except Science I -- 7 Everything Except Science II -- 8 Wedging into Power Politics -- 9 Religion First—and Last. 

• This book explains the history and strategy of the intelligent design creationist movement, which is headquartered at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, WA. The movement’s twenty-year “Wedge Strategy,” implementation of which began in 1998, is aimed at bringing intelligent design into American public schools, public policymaking, and the cultural mainstream. Beginning with a brief history of the movement and the authentication of the “Wedge Document,” in which the Wedge Strategy is outlined, the book critiques the incompetent science and rhetorical tactics of the movement’s leaders: Douglas Axe, Paul Chien, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, and William Dembski. The movement’s own documents reveal its religious funding sources and its execution of all phases of the strategy except the production of genuine scientific data, including its development of a legal defense against challenges to the teaching of intelligent design. The book recounts the movement’s political maneuvering in its effort to influence science curricula in individual states, most notably Kansas and Ohio, and to develop political support among members of Congress. Importantly, the book documents the centrality of religion to intelligent design, its leaders’ associations with Christian extremists, its continuity with earlier forms of creationism, and its ambitions for academic legitimacy. 

Ämnesord

Intelligent design (Teleology)  (LCSH)

Creationism  -- United States (LCSH)

Evolution (Biology)  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity (LCSH)

Creationism  -- Study and teaching -- United States (LCSH)

Evolution (Biology)  -- Study and teaching -- United States (LCSH)

Intelligent design (Teleology)  -- Study and teaching -- United States (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (local)

Institutionsnamn

Center for Science & Culture

Klassifikation

BS659 (LCC)

231.7/652 (DDC)

Ceaa (kssb/8 (machine generated))