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Creationism's Trojan horse : the wedge of intelligent design
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Creationism's Trojan horse : the wedge of intelligent design

Author: Barbara Forrest; Paul R Gross
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In Creationism's Trojan Horse, Forrest and Gross document the agenda and advances of "Intelligent Design," the most recent manifestation of American science education's perennial affliction: creationism. Explaining and analyzing what "design theorists" call their "Wedge Strategy" - an attempt to substitute "theistic science" for natural science in the public mind - this book documents the Wedge's aggressive,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Forrest; Paul R Gross
ISBN: 0195157427 9780195157420
OCLC Number: 50913078
Description: viii, 401 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How the wedge began --
The wedge document: a design for design --
Searching for the science --
Paleontology lite and Copernican discoveries --
A conspiracy hunter and a Newton --
Everything except science I --
Everything except science II --
Wedging into power politics --
Religion first - and last.
Responsibility: by Barbara Forrest & Paul R. Gross.

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Aims to expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism highlighting its threat to public education and to the separation of  Read more...
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<br>"Science educators can benefit greatly by understanding creationists' motivations and strategies. These are thoroughly documented in Creationism's Trojan Horse"--SCIENCE<p> Read more...

 
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