Uncommon Dissent
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Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing is a 2004 anthology edited by intelligent design activist William Dembski in which thirteen intellectuals criticise evolution. As such it fulfils part of phase II of the Discovery Institute's wedge strategy (Publicity & Opinion-making).
It is published by the publishing wing of the paleoconservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The forward is by John Wilson, editor of the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today.
The title is a pun on the principle of biology known as common descent.
[edit] The Dissenters
The thirteen "dissenting intellectuals" are:
- William A. Dembski, intelligent design activist
- Robert Koons, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist
- Phillip E. Johnson, lawyer, Christian apologist
- Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, mathematician
- Nancy R. Pearcey, Christian apologist
- Edward Sisson, attorney
- J. Budziszewski, philosopher
- Frank J. Tipler, mathematical physicist
- Michael J. Behe, biochemist
- Michael John Denton, biochemist
- James Barham, classical historian
- Cornelius G. Hunter, biophysicist
- Roland F. Hirsch, US Dept of Energy
- Christopher Michael Langan,
- David Berlinski, popular mathematics author
None is an evolutionary biologist.
[edit] Contents
- Foreword by John Wilson
- PART I: A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
- 1. The Check Is in the Mail: Why Darwinism Fails to Inspire Confidence by Robert Koons
- 2. Darwinism as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson
- 3. The Miracles of Darwinism by Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
- PART II: DARWINISM’S CULTURAL INROADS
- 4. Darwin Meets the Berenstain Bears: The Cultural Impact of Evolution by Nancy R. Pearcey
- 5. Teaching the Flaws in Neo-Darwinism by Edward Sisson
- 6. Accept No Imitations: The Rivalry of Naturalism and Natural Law by J. Budziszewski
- 7. Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy? by Frank J. Tipler
- PART III: LEAVING THE DARWINIAN FOLD
- 8. A Catholic Scientist Looks at Darwinism and Design by Michael J. Behe
- 9. An Anti-Darwinian Intellectual Journey: Biological Order as an Inherent Property of Matter by Michael John Denton
- 10. Why I Am Not a Darwinist by James Barham
PART IV: AUDITING THE BOOKS
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- 11. Why Evolution Fails the Test of Science by Cornelius G. Hunter
- 12. Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and the Life Sciences in the 21st Century by Roland F. Hirsch
- 13. Cheating the Millennium: The Mounting Explanatory Debts of Scientific Naturalism by Christopher Michael Langan
- 14. The Deniable Darwin by David Berlinski