06.30.07
Have Darwinists shot their bolt?
Eighteen months after the “monkey trial” in Dover, Pennsylvania,
a bumper crop of books puts the battle in perspective and asks, What’s next?
Bumper crop indeed. Darwinists are quite worried! There must have been a set of powows between Darwin writers: get out the drum beat.
But have they shot their bolt?
A perfect time for Darwin critics to produce another good critique of Darwin’s theory, no ID please.
That might remind frantic Darwinists that ‘one long arugment’ won’t stop just because of a bumper crop of books.
By Richard Milner
Every few years in America (and nowhere else) God tells someone to haul Charles Darwin and evolutionary biology into court.
No other scientific theory—not atomic theory, not string theory, not the big bang—has ever been put on trial in a court of law. That may be because “Darwin matters,” to borrow a phrase from Michael Shermer, a historian of science and self-labeled “former fundamentalist.” Shermer’s essential little book, Why Darwin Matters, shows how the revolutionary
By Michael Shermer
(Times Books, $22.00)
Darwinian time bomb is still ticking. Subtitled The Case Against Intelligent Design, the book refutes creationism’s latest incarnation and chronicles the recent brouhaha over high school textbooks in Dover, a small town in rural Pennsylvania.