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Creationism's Trojan Horse:The Wedge of Intelligent DesignBarbara Forrest & Paul R. GrossOxford University Press 2004 Now available in 2007 paperback edition with update chapter including Dover trial Decision in Favor of Plaintiffs Judge John E. Jones III, Middle District of Pennsylvania : Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District Post-Kitzmiller Interviews with Barbara Forrest: Culture Shocks, December 21, 2005 Science Friday, December 23, 2005  Infidel
Guy, January 2006
in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005) "The 'Vise Strategy' Undone: Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District," in CSICOP Creation & Intelligent Design Watch, Summer 2006 Glenn Branch, "Understanding Creationism after Kitzmiller" BioScience, March 2007 |
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In Creationism's
Trojan Horse,
Forrest and Gross examine in full detail
the claims and operations of the “Intelligent Design” movement, the
most recent manifestation of American creationism. Explaining and
analyzing what “design theorists” call their “Wedge Strategy,” they
document the Wedge’s aggressive political and public relations
campaigning. The most notable feature of the movement’s purportedly new
scientific paradigm is an abject failure to produce scientific data in
support of its claims or even a coherent research program. Instead, the
Wedge maintains a crowded nationwide schedule of lectures, popular
publications for its mostly conservative Christian constituency, and
media appearances, all sustained by generous funding from religious
benefactors. The Wedge has intruded itself efficiently into educational
politics at local, state, and national levels.
Forrest and Gross detail
efforts of intelligent design proponents to
influence science standards in Kansas and Ohio, and to influence
federal education legislation through the so-called “Santorum
amendment” of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. They demonstrate the
continuity of intelligent design with traditional creationism,
including all the scientific claims, exposing its religious core and
purposes. By displaying the movement’s alliance with Religious Right
extremism, the book reveals the significance of William Dembski’s
statement that the intelligent design movement’s challenge to the
“evolutionary naturalism of Darwin” is “ground zero of the culture
war.”
Endorsements Statement from Michael Cavanaugh, President, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
Science,
"Shapes of
a Wedge," by
Steve Olson, May 7, 2004
The Beacon, newsletter of the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESE), June 2004, p. 3: Review by Bill MacPherson Skeptic, E-Skeptic Hotline #22: "Intentional Deception: Intelligent Design Creationism," by Dr. Bruce S. Grant, Emeritus Professor of Biology, College of William and Mary Evolution & Development 6:4, 289-291 (2004): "The Creationist Hydra Grows a New Head," by Rudolf A. Raff, Dept. of Biology and Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Indiana University CSICOP — "IDing ID," by Chris Mooney in "Doubt and About," August 9, 2004 Tristero weblog, "The Wedge," by Richard Einhorn, October 15, 2004 Physics & Society, review of Creationism's Trojan Horse, by Lawrence Lerner, January 2005, pp. 16-18 Bioscience, "Intelligent Design's Empty but Explosive Black Box," by Barry Palevitz, March 2005 Tradition and Society, 32 (2), 2005-2006, review of Creationism's Trojan Horse, by Phil Mullins for the Polanyi Society American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, "Should
Schools Teach Intelligent Design?" Science
Wars (Barbara Forrest at 2:39:34), Washington, DC,
October 21, 2005
Columbia Political Union, “The Politics of Intelligent Design,” with Joel Cracraft, Barbara Forrest, Nick Matzke, and Rev. John Rankin, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 27, 2006 Allison Hoffman, independent filmmaker, "Evolution vs. Creationism," Listen to the Scientists, Anaheim, CA, April 6, 2006 •
“Listen to the
Scientists” (Forrest at 9:29)
• “History of Evolution vs. Creationism” (Forrest at 8:40) • “Purposes and Goals of Creationism” • “Science Teachers Challenged” • “Epistemology” BBC, “War on Science,” Horizon, 2006 Massachusetts School of Law, “Evolution and Intelligent Design: The Science, the Debate, and the Legal Landscape,” Educational Forum, with Kenneth Miller and David DeWolf, October 29, 2006 Center for Inquiry Community and Student Leadership Conference, “Inside Creationism’s Trojan Horse: A Closer Look at Intelligent Design,” Amherst, NY, June 16, 2007 ABC Nightline
on Intelligent Design, with Barbara Forrest, August 10, 2005
Culture Shocks, radio program of Americans United for Separation of Church and State • Barry
Lynn's interview with Barbara Forrest
& Hiram Sasser,
September 26, 2005
• Barry
Lynn's
post-Kitzmiller interview with Barbara Forrest, December 21,
2005
Infidel Guy, with Reginald Finley, also of The Debate Hour •
"The
Politics of Intelligent
Design," with Barbara Forrest, July 2005
• "The Dover Decision About Intelligent Design," with Barbara Forrest, January 2006 NPR's Weekend Edition, "Intelligent Design and the Theory of Evolution," featuring Barbara Forrest, May 2, 2004. NPR's Science Friday, post-Kitzmiller interview with Barbara Forrest, December 23, 2005 Point of Inquiry, D. J. Grothe interview with Barbara Forrest, February 16, 2007 PowerPoint Radio, "In
the Beginning: A Look at Creation & Evolution," interview
with Barbara Forrest,
November 21, 2004
(includes paleontologist David R. Schwimmer, Columbus State University;
John Calvert, Intelligent Design Network; and Casey Luskin, Discovery
Institute)
Ring of Fire
Radio, Air
America •
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., interview
about intelligent design with Barbara Forrest, Part
One,
February 12, 2005
• Part Two, February 12, 2005
Church
& State, "A
Conversation with Barbara Forrest," by Americans United for
Separation of Church
and State, February
2005
AAAS Eurekalert Chat with Experts: Evolution, with Kenneth Miller, Eugenie Scott, and Barbara Forrest, June 28, 2005
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More by Forrest & Gross Jointly Authored Intelligent Design Creationism
Barbara Forrest Naturalism
Creationism Curriculum Vitae (July 2007) Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Legal Analysis
Paul R. Gross |
Why We Wrote This Book Religious interference in American science and science education is an old story. But intelligent design proponents’ cultivation of support for efforts to eliminate evolution from public school science, or to disparage it, and to secure recognition of creationists’ claims of scientific legitimacy, are today enjoying unprecedented, nationwide success. For the first time, such claims seem to many lay observers to have become respectable. In fact, however, they are no more respectable as scholarly inquiry, or specifically as biological science, than were their discredited “creation science” predecessors. Unfortunately, this is not widely understood. Nor is the seamless continuity of “Intelligent Design Theory” with other recognized forms of creationism. Having examined in detail claims made by members of the “Wedge,” we saw it as our professional and civic obligation to scholarship and science to prepare a fully documented account of their anti-evolution agenda. We came to understand that, for the well-being of science and science education, the seamless continuity of intelligent design and traditional creationism must be demonstrated for our colleagues and the knowledgeable public. The narrowness of Wedge strategists’ religious aims, which do not reflect the values of the broader, more tolerant religious community, must be exposed, as must ID’s pervasively sham methods of inquiry. People who value science and the benefits of life in an enlightened society must be alerted to the Wedge’s political, cultural, and religious ambitions.
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What
You Can Do
(Besides Reading Our Book)
• Defend public science education: Join the National Center for Science Education • Defend church-state separation: Join Americans United for Separation of Church & State • Stay abreast of the issue by visiting these websites: TalkReason at http://www.talkreason.org
The Panda’s Thumb at http://www.pandasthumb.org Ignorant
Design at http://www.ignorantdesign.com/
• Find out about ID’s attempts to infiltrate public science education:Alabama
Citizens for
Science
Education at http://www.alscience.org
Burlington-Edison
(WA)
Committee
for Science Education at http://www.scienceormyth.org
Coalition
for
Excellence in Science and Math Education at http://www.cesame-nm.org/
Georgia
Citizens
for
Integrity
in
Science Education at http://www.georgiascience.org/
Michigan Citizens for
Science at http://www.michigancitizensforscience.org/
New Mexicans for Science
& Reason at http://www.nmsr.org/nmevhist.htm
Ohio Citizens for Science
at http://www.ohioscience.org/
Texas
Citizens for
Science at http://www.texscience.org/
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Special Features Richard
Gelwick,
"Polanyi
Scholarship and the Former Baylor
Polanyi Center"
We are pleased to offer
an essay by Prof. Richard Gelwick concerning the establishment of the
Michael Polanyi Center, an intelligent design creationist think tank,
at Baylor University in 1999. Now retired, Prof. Gelwick is a founding
member of The
Polanyi Society and wrote the first doctoral dissertation
about Polanyi's work. He maintains an active interest in matters
relating to Polanyi and is a regular participant in Polanyi Society
meetings. He continues to publish scholarly articles, the most current
of which is "Michael
Polanyi's Daring Epistemology and the Hunger for Teleology," Zygon, March 2005.
Current
Articles of Interest
The State of State Science Standards 2005 Under
the auspices of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Paul R. Gross, Ursula
Goodenough, Lawrence S. Lerner, Martha Schwartz, Richards Schwartz, and
Chester E. Finn, Jr., have repeated Lerner's 2000 evaluation of state
science standards.
"Nuance and Honor"
Essay in honor of Susan
Haack in A Lady of
Distinctions: Susan Haack: The Philosopher Responds to her Critics.
(Prometheus Books, 2007), 191-201. Used with the kind
permission of Prometheus Press.
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Endorsements“Intelligent Design
‘theory’
(ID) has been well described as Creationism in a cheap Tuxedo.
One of its luminaries, we are told, has ‘angrily denied that ID is
stealth creationism.’ He’s right. There's no stealth about it. It
is creationism. Unfortunately, ID ‘theorists’ have a streetwise
political professionalism to outweigh the amateurishness of their
science, and we therefore cannot ignore them. Barbara Forrest and Paul
Gross meticulously document their pretensions, destroy their arguments,
and expose their true motivation. An excellent and sadly necessary
book.” — Professor Richard Dawkins,
author of The Selfish Gene and A
Devil's Chaplain
“This is the definitive work on modern creationism, an exhaustively detailed and compelling exposure of the attempt--by the well-known process in nature called by biologists ‘aggressive mimicry’--to corrupt science in the service of sectarian religion. In the process, the book explores the larger and seemingly endless struggle between religion-based tribal values and science-based universal values.” — Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, Harvard University “Forrest and Gross have combined scrupulous standards of documentation with a fluid and lively narrative to generate an engrossing and chilling account of how a few people have been able to wreak havoc with science education. A must-read for anyone interested in how America can be hijacked.” — Ursula Goodenough, Professor of Biology, Washington University and author of The Sacred Depths of Nature “A scholarly and
penetrating
analysis of why intelligent design is
simply a form of creationism, and why both are in turn a form of
religious ideology, with nothing to do with serious science. A must
read for educators, scientists, and policy makers. A wake up call for
everybody else.” — Massimo Pigliucci,
Professor, University of Tennessee, author of Denying Evolution:
Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science
“With all the rigor and detail of Ronald Numbers’s The Creationists but with the passion and verve of Richard Dawkins or Stephen Jay Gould, Creationism's Trojan Horse incisively analyzes the latest evolutionary step of creationism: ‘intelligent design.’ Forrest and Gross’s history and critique of intelligent design creationism is both authoritative and fascinating, painstakingly researched and compellingly argued. Creationism's Trojan Horse will be the standard work on intelligent design creationism for years to come.” — Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education “Creationism's Trojan Horse documents the disturbing movement to sneak religious dogma back into science education, driven by the vague fear that Americans can’t handle the truth. Educators, scientists, and politicians would do well to understand this movement and its tactics, and this book is a superb and timely analysis.” — Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate |
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