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stories exposing the true goals and financial supporters of the
Discovery Institute of Seattle,
Washington Articles about Howard
Ahmanson, Phillip Johnson, Bruce Chapman, William Dembski, Michael
Behe, Jonathan Wells, Ray Bohlin, and others who make a very good
living working as nonsense purveyors, superstition mongers, and
pseudoscience peddlers for the Discovery Institute. See also the
Wedge Strategy below.
Wedge
Strategy The Discovery
Institute-Center for Science and Culture's strategy to "wedge"
Intelligent Design Creationism -- as an alternative to evolution
and other "materialistic explanations" of science -- into the
realm of public discourse, popular science, and "public school
science curricula." They intend to do this quickly by using
marketing, popularization, and political techniques, not by using
the traditional and legitimate methods of scientific investigation
and publication that scientists must follow.
A
Preliminary Analysis of the Treatment of Evolution in Biology
Textbooks currently being considered for adoption by the Texas
State Board of Education. The
Discovery Institute-Center for Science and Culture's written
testimony submitted to the Texas State Board of Education for the
biology textbook adoption hearing. This written testimony is
derived from the book Icons of Evolution by
anti-evolutionist Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute. (This
link will download the document as a PDF file.)
Websites That Analyze and Critique Jonathan
Wells' Icons of Evolution from a Scientific
Perspective
- Icons
of Evolution? Why much of what Jonathan Wells writes about
evolution is wrong. The most
detailed, complete, and referenced analysis and refutation of
Icons of Evolution, written by Alan D. Gishlick,
Postdoctoral Scholar at the National Center for Science
Education.
- Icon
of Obfuscation Jonathan Wells'
book Icons of Evolution and why most of what it teaches
about evolution is wrong. A thorough analysis and critique by
Nic Tamzek (Nicholas Matzke), graduate student in the UC-Santa
Barbara Geography Department, with contributions by noted
scientists whose own work was misrepresented in Wells'
book.
- Critical
Reviews by prominent scientists
of the anti-evolution book Icons of Evolution used by
the Discovery Institute to prepare their biology textbook
analysis.
- More
Critical Reviews and
Still
More Reviews by scientists of
the anti-evolution Icons of Evolution.
Behe's
Empty Box is the best source
for almost all the reviews, essays, and documents by evolutionary
scientists who dispute the concept, arguments, and alleged
evidence proposed by Lehigh University biology professor Michael
Behe in his book Darwin's Black Box for the idea of
"irreducible complexity."
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