EVOLUTION AND CREATIONISM:
Shapes of a Wedge
A review by Steve Olson
Darwinism, Design, and Public Education
John Angus Campbell
and Stephen C. Meyer, Eds.
Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 2004. 672 pp. $84.95. ISBN 0-87013-670-4. Paper, $28.95. ISBN 0-87013-675-5.
God, the Devil, and Darwin A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory
by Niall Shanks
Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. 289 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-516199-8.
Creationism's Trojan Horse The Wedge of Intelligent Design
by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. 411 pp. $40. ISBN 0-19-515742-7.
These three additions to a rapidly expanding literature discuss intelligent design creationism and some of the factors behind its recent political successes.
The reviewer, a science writer in the Washington, DC, area, is the author of Evolution in Hawaii: A Supplement to Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science. E-mail: solson{at}comcast.net
