Darwinism, Design and Pubic Education

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Darwinism, Design and Public Education is a 2003 anthology edited by intelligent design activists John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer. The book promotes the Discovery Institute's "teach the controversy" political action plan.

The book is published by Michigan State University Press as part of its Rhetoric & Public Affairs Series.

Contents 1 Contents 2 Peer review 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Why Are We Still Debating Darwinism? Why Not Teach the Controversy? John Angus Campbell
• PART 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
• PART 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
• PART III—The Theory of Intelligent Design: A Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian 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
• PART 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, Phillip E. Johnson
• Appendixes
  • A. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing: On Curriculum Controversies in Biology, 21 August 1998
  • B. Helping Schools to Teach Evolution, Donald Kennedy
  • C. Stratigraphic First Appearance of Phyla-Body Plans
  • D. Stratigraphic First Appearance of Phyla-Subphyla Body Plans
  • E. Probability of Other Body Plans Originating in the Cambrian Explosion
• Glossary
• For Further Reading
• Contributors

[edit] Peer review

The Discovery Institute lists five chapters as "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design^[1], though Mark Isaak of the talk.origins Archive notes that "Anthologies and conference proceedings do not have well-defined peer review standards" and that "reviewers are themselves ardent supporters of intelligent design. The purpose of peer review is to expose errors, weaknesses, and significant omissions in fact and argument. That purpose is not served if the reviewers are uncritical"^[2]. The five papers are:

• DNA and the origin of life, Information, specification and explanation Stephen C. Meyer
• Design in the details: The origin of biomolecular machines, Michael Behe
• Reinstating design within science, William Dembski
• Homology in biology: Problem for naturalistic science and prospect for intelligent design Paul Nelson (creationist) and Jonathan Wells
• The Cambrian explosion: biology’s big bang, Stephen C. Meyer, Marcus Ross, Paul Nelson, & Paul Chien

The first three are actually listed twice including once as "featured articles". Meyer's paper on the Cambrian explosion also contains much of the same material which went into another of the claimed peer-reviewed papers which was at the center of the Sternberg peer review controversy^[3].

[edit] References

1. ^ Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated), Discovery Institute
2. ^ CI001.4 Intelligent Design and peer review, Mark Isaak, Index to Creationist Claims, talkorigins.org
3. ^ Deja vu again. Again., Nick Matzke, The Panda's Thumb weblog, October 2, 2004.

[edit] External links

• Publicity website for Darwinism, Design and Public Education
• Michigan State University Press page