07.24.08
Fuller: dissent over descent
The book of the week: Dissent over Descent
24 July 2008
Keith Ward on evolution versus intelligent design
Steve Fuller is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick and a sociologist of science. His most general argument, captured by the subtitle, “Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism”, is that some sort of “intelligent design” (ID) theory underlay the development of the natural sciences, and still provides the best justification for the intelligibility of nature that the sciences presuppose. Darwinism, on the other hand, denies that nature is intelligible or that the human mind is fitted to understand it, and has assumed the status of a repressive orthodoxy that could stifle creative research in biology.