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You think you know about Darwinism and intelligent design, but did you know: *There is no overwhelming evidence for Darwinism; *Intelligent design is based on scientific evidence, not religious belief; *What many public schools teach about Darwinism is based on known falsehoods; *Scientists at major universities believe in intelligent design; *Scientists who question Darwinism are punished --by public institutions using your tax dollars. Battle-hardened veteran with doctorates in biology and theology sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #100845 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover
Why Darwinism—like Marxism and Freudianism before it—is headed for extinction

In the 1925 Scopes trial, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to allow the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution in public schools. Seventy-five years later, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU sued to prevent the teaching of an alternative to Darwin’s theory known as "Intelligent Design"—and won. Why did the ACLU turn from defending the free-speech rights of Darwinists to silencing their opponents? Jonathan Wells reveals that, for today’s Darwinists, there may be no other choice: unable to fend off growing challenges from scientists, or to compete with rival theories better adapted to the latest evidence, Darwinism—like Marxism and Freudianism before it—is simply unfit to survive.

Wells begins by explaining the basic tenets of Darwinism, and the evidence both for and against it. He reveals, for instance, that the fossil record, which according to Darwin should be teeming with "transitional" fossils showing the development of one species to the next, so far hasn’t produced a single incontestable example. On the other hand, certain well-documented aspects of the fossil record—such as the Cambrian explosion, in which innumerable new species suddenly appeared fully formed—directly contradict Darwin’s theory. Wells also shows how most of the other "evidence" for evolution— including textbook "icons" such as peppered moths, Darwin’s finches, Haeckel’s embryos, and the Tree of Life—has been exaggerated, distorted . . . and even faked.

Wells then turns to the theory of intelligent design (ID), the idea that some features of the natural world, such as the internal machinery of cells, are too "irreducibly complex" to have resulted from unguided natural processes alone. In clear-cut layman’s language, he reveals the growing evidence for ID coming out of scientific specialties from microbiology to astrophysics. As Wells explains, religion does play a role in the debate over Darwin—though not in the way evolutionists claim. Wells shows how Darwin reasoned that evolution is true because divine creation "must" be false—a theological assumption oddly out of place in a scientific debate. In other words, Darwinists’ materialistic, atheistic assumptions rule out any theories but their own, and account for their willingness to explain away the evidence—or lack of it.

Darwin is an emperor who has no clothes— but it takes a brave man to say so. Jonathan Wells, a microbiologist with two Ph.D.s (from Berkeley and Yale), is that brave man. Most textbooks on evolution are written by Darwinists with an ideological ax to grind. Brave dissidents—qualified scientists—who try to teach or write about intelligent design are silenced and sent to the academic gulag. But fear not: Jonathan Wells is a liberator. He unmasks the truth about Darwinism— why it is wrong and what the real evidence is. He also supplies a revealing list of "Books You’re Not Supposed to Read" (as far as the Darwinists are concerned) and puts at your fingertips all the evidence you need to challenge the most closed-minded Darwinist.

About the Author
Jonathan Wells is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in theology from Yale University. He is the author of Icons of Evolution: Why Much of What We Teach about Evolution Is Wrong (Regnery) and is currently doing intelligent design–related scientific research.

Customer Reviews

Clear thinking, or Moonie brainwash? You decide
Wells pokes holes in Darwinism (defined as macro evolution, not microevolution, of all species from a common ancestor, by natural selection of random processes) and defends Intelligent Design as legitimate science, and clearly revels in the task. The writing is understandable, the examples are enlightening, and the control of Darwinism on the scientific establishments in government and universities is examined in numerous cases.

A scan of reviews on Amazon shows about a 60/40 split between 5 stars and 1 star, averaging 3 stars with a standard deviation of two!. In other words, there is no middle ground. Wells was accused of being a brainwashed Moonie, and the Discovery Institute for which he works a Moonie front, and he was praised as a clear thinker and defender of academic freedom, but never by the same people.

Read and judge.

Utterly biased, lacking in science, outright deception
This book is not properly titled because it is basically a rant from a creationist about how Darwinism is evil and targets Christianity with malicious intent and the author never talks clearly about exactly what Intelligent Design is. Intelligent Design is what creationists now call their belief concerning the history of life on earth. The author is a devout Christian whose previous book has been unanimously panned and discredited by the scientific community and every educated person without a religious agenda who reviewed it. This book is basically a rehashing of his first.

Inside The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, you will find the desperate attempt of a man to distort evolution by constantly referring to it as Darwinism(which is basically everything the author doesn't like about evolution). He manipulates quotes from respected scientists to read in a manner that he wishes them to while destroying the cited person's original intent. No scientific community endorses Intelligent Design nor is it considered by any respectable scientific mind. Belief if God is based on virtually no hard evidence while evolution is supported by mountains of facts. This book is just a Christian's attempt to give validity to his belief in God while lambasting evolution(which he clearly has a very poor understanding of).

Check out the reviews of this book on the internet. Plenty of people have reviewed it, so it won't be difficult. Find reviews of this book from scientists and they will tell you that the entirety of it is uncorroborated nonsense. There is even available, a nearly chapter by chapter analysis by various scientific professionals critically analyzing this book(The review by the biologist and professor, PZ Myers, is particularly revealing). If you wish to amuse yourself, check out reviews of the book by Christian groups and you will find an endless supply of accolades for the book.

Bottom line - this book is a propaganda piece for Christians particularly that will reinforce your belief in God, if you do so believe. If you are a person with a good understanding of evolutionary biology, this book will shock you with it's distortion and outright falsehoods.

Ashamed at the Small Minded, Simpleton Arguments Against ID Theorists
I cannot believe the petty-minded arguments and character assassinations being leveled against ID proponents and their theory nowadays. I have an M.A. in Anthropology from an accredited midwestern U.S. university. ID theorists for the most part are legitimate scientists speaking out at great personal cost in the fields of their expertise, as this author is doing. The childish nature of the disinformation campaign being used to turn away max people from buying and reading I.D. books nauseates me, and makes me even ashamed. It should do the same similarly to any open-minded, even-handed scholar. Read this book for what it claims to be and weigh its arguments carefully. Anti-ID propaganda is a travesty steeped in antireligious malice and bitterness. See it for what it is and steer clear of it. For one, it is a distortion campaign steeped in (or more accurately put -- permeated with) mob-like, bullying activity, systematically violating accepted tenets of argumentation theory. This author has the qualifications as he states and he appears less biased than many of his accusers. Read his book for what it states it stands for (considering its point of view), weigh its arguments, and then decide for yourself what to think! Adjust your persuasion only if or as needed, then endeavor to stop these bigots (aka the petty critics of I.D. theory) from fomenting riot and possibly a civil war in our midst.