Jointly Authored Articles
 
Barbara Forrest & Paul R. Gross

•   "The Wedge of Intelligent Design," in Noretta Koertge, ed., Scientific Values and Civic Virtues, Oxford University Press, 2005. Used with the kind permission of Oxford University Press.

In this article, we examine the religious underpinnings of the intelligent design movement in even more depth than in Creationism's Trojan Horse.  We discuss in detail the ID movement's anti-modernism, anti-secularism, religious exclusionism, and anti-rationalism. We recommend long-term and short-term initiatives for countering the influence of ID.

 
This article details how the Discovery Institute's intelligent design terminology has evolved as the ID movement's public relations campaign has succeeded in raising the Wedge's profile and as they have encountered resistance to their efforts to insert ID into public school science classrooms. They are now victims of their own success: the Wedge's twelve-year PR campaign has now made the term "intelligent design" a liability. ID's true nature as (1) a religious movement and (2) the most recent evolutionary variant of traditional American creationism is now well established. Increasing numbers of Americans are coming to understand this.