What started as a debate among scientists has become a full-scale public battle.   
  
In this sequel to his award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Thomas Woodward traces the struggle that has emerged as the two sides wrestle with questions of the origin of life. Woodward answers these questions and more:  
  
• Who are the key players on each side, and what contributions have they made?  
• How has the debate developed, and where is it headed in the future?  
• What conclusions can we draw about our origins based on the scientific evidence?  
  
There is no better guide to help you navigate this important debate.   
  
  
"Darwin Strikes Back tells the thrilling story of how the Darwinian establishment has summoned all its power to crush the frightening challenge of the Intelligent Design Movement, and how the rebels are not only surviving but gaining new strength as we respond to the onslaught. Highly recommended."--Phillip E. Johnson, emeritus professor of law, University of California, Berkeley; author, Darwin on Trial  
  
"Taking the reader behind the headlines, Thomas Woodward--the premier historian of the Intelligent Design Movement--analyzes crucial developments of the past decade."--Michael J. Behe, department of biology, Lehigh University  
  
"The controversy over Darwinism and Intelligent Design signals a major scientific and social revolution. Everyone who wants to understand it should read this timely and well-written book."--Jonathan Wells, author, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design  
  
"My friend Tom Woodward is one of the most effective and articulate chroniclers of Intelligent Design in America today. This excellent work will clear away some of the fog of confusion spread by Darwinists, and give you solid, useable information to defend Intelligent Design. A very valuable resource in one of the most consequential debates of our times."--Chuck Colson, founder and chairman, Prison Fellowship   
  
  
Thomas Woodward (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is a professor at Trinity College of Florida, where he teaches the history of science, communication, and systematic theology. He is founder and director of the C. S. Lewis Society and lectures in universities on scientific, apologetic, and religious topics. The author of the award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Woodward is an avid astronomer and has been published in Christianity Today and other periodicals.

Thomas Woodward (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is a professor at Trinity College of Florida, where he teaches the history of science, communication, and systematic theology. He is founder and director of the C. S. Lewis Society and lectures in universities on scientific, apologetic, and religious topics. The author of the award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Woodward is an avid astronomer and has been published in Christianity Today and other periodicals. He lives in Dunedin, Florida.

The debate between proponents of Darwinism and those of Intelligent Design has reached the status of a full-scale public battle. With stories of qualifying statements about evolution in public school textbooks and the recent 70th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial in the news, the question about our origins will not be put to rest.   
Following up his award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Thomas Woodward traces the continuing saga of the ID movement in Darwin Strikes Back. Focusing on the emerging key players on both sides--Michael Behe, William Dembski, Kenneth Miller, Robert Pennock, and more--Woodward helps readers navigate the tangled maze of public debate, including anti-ID activism from Christians, and shows them what might be coming next.

Thomas Woodward traces the continuing saga of the ID movement in Darwin Strikes Back helping readers navigate the tangled maze of public debate and showing them what might be coming next.

Woodward, Thomas

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Foreword

Preface 

1. The Explosion of Design: “The Sky Is Falling!”

2. The Real Issue: Nature’s Symphony of Macroevolution

3. Design after 1996: Advancing through Heavy Fire

4. Beyond the Yale Conference: The War over Design Heats Up

5. Bombs and Rockets Galore: Michael Behe and Cellular Complexity

6. Jonathan Wells and Icons of Evolution: The Battle over Textbook Misinformation

7. Fossils and the Battle over the Cambrian: The Iceberg and Its Shining Tip

8. The Stubborn Mystery: How Did Life Begin?

9. Assessing the Origin-of-Life Question: What Have We Learned?

10. CSI and the Explanatory Filter: Dembski’s Trial by Fire

11. Unexpected Allies: Cosmologists and Atheologians

12. Are We at the Tipping Point? Theses, Flashbacks, and Questions

Appendix

Notes

Index

About the Author

Backadd

The debate between proponents of Darwinism and those of Intelligent Design has reached the status of a full-scale public battle. With stories of qualifying statements about evolution in public school textbooks and the recent 70th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial in the news, the question about our origins will not be put to rest.  
Following up his award-winningDoubts about Darwin, Thomas Woodward traces the continuing saga of the ID movement inDarwin Strikes Back. Focusing on the emerging key players on both sides--Michael Behe, William Dembski, Kenneth Miller, Robert Pennock, and more--Woodward helps readers navigate the tangled maze of public debate, including anti-ID activism from Christians, and shows them what might be coming next.

The debate between proponents of Darwinism and those of Intelligent Design has reached the status of a full-scale public battle. With stories of qualifying statements about evolution in public school textbooks and the recent 70th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial in the news, the question about our origins will not be put to rest. Following up his award-winning Doubts about Darwin, Thomas Woodward traces the continuing saga of the ID movement in Darwin Strikes Back. Focusing on the emerging key players on both sides--Michael Behe, William Dembski, Kenneth Miller, Robert Pennock, and more--Woodward helps readers navigate the tangled maze of public debate, including anti-ID activism from Christians, and shows them what might be coming next.

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An excellent book looking at a thoroughly topical subject that has a growing reader base. Woodward looks at the emerging players on both sides of the Intelligent Design and Evolution argument and tries to help and inform readers of some of the tangled strings of this raging and often heated debate. This is not an entirely unbiased book by any stretch, after all the subtitle is ‘defending the science of Intelligent Design’ however it is an informed and sane book on a sometimes inflammatory subject. Given the interest of this subject this is definitely one to have on the bookshop shelves.

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