Darwinism, design, and public education /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Campbell, John Angus, Meyer, Stephen C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2003]
Series:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why are we still debating Darwinism? Why not teach the controversy? / John Angus Campbell
  • I: Should Darwinism be presented critically and comparatively in the public schools? Philosophical, educational and legal issues
  • Intelligent design, Darwinism, and the philosophy of public education / John Angus Campbell
  • Intelligent design theory, religion, and the science curriculum / Warren A. Nord
  • Teaching the controversy: is it science, religion, or speech? / David DeWolf, Stephen C. Meyer, and Mark E. DeForrest
  • II: Scientific critique of biology textbooks and contemporary evolutionary theory
  • The meanings of evolution / Stephen C. Meyer and Michael Newton Keas
  • The deniable Darwin / David Berlinski
  • Haeckel's embryos and evolution: setting the record straight / Jonathan Wells
  • Second thoughts about peppered moths / Jonathan Wells
  • Where do we come from? A humbling look at the biology of life's origin / Massimo Pigliucci
  • Origin of life and evolution in biology textbooks: a critique / Gordon C. Mills, Malcolm Lancaster, and Walter L. Bradley
  • III: The theory of intelligent design: a scientific alternative to Neo-Darwinism and/or chemical evolutionary theories
  • DNA and the origin of life: information, specification, and explanation / Stephen C. Meyer
  • Design in the details: the origin of biomolecular machines / Michael J. Behe
  • Homology in biology: problem for naturalistic science and prospect for intelligent design / Paul Nelson and Jonathan Wells
  • The Cambrian explosion: biology's big bang / Stephen C. Meyer, Marcus Ross, Paul Nelson, and Paul Chien
  • Reinstating design within science / William A. Dembski
  • IV: Critical responses
  • The rhetoric of intelligent design: alternatives for science and religion / Celeste Michelle Condit
  • Intelligent design and irreducible complexity: a rejoinder / David Depew
  • Biochemical complexity: emergence or design? / Bruce H. Weber
  • Design Yes, intelligent No: a critique of intelligent design theory and neo-creationism / Massimo Pigliucci
  • On behalf of the fool / Michael Ruse
  • Rhetorical arguments and scientific arguments: do my children have to listen to more arguments against evolution? / Eugene Garver
  • Design? Yes! but is it intelligent? / William Provine
  • Creation and evolution: a modest proposal / Alvin Plantinga
  • Thinking pedagogically about design / John Lyne
  • An intelligent person's guide to intelligent design theory / Steve Fuller
  • Creationism versus Darwinism: a third alternative / Brig Klyce and Chandra Wickramasinghe
  • The rhetorical problem of intelligent design / Philip E. Johnson.