Creationism's Trojan Horse

"Yes, that is true. The two authors of this book have spared no effort to research the rise of the movement called “intelligent design” in the US. This is not an entertaining book in the way that my first three choices are. It is an academic book which was put together with exhaustive research and very thorough documentation. But the importance of this book, in terms of understanding the intelligent design movement in the US and in Europe, cannot be underestimated. The authors have documented a series of very conscious, deliberate moves by the advocates of creationism in the US to re-label and re-brand creationism in a way that might be more politically and legally acceptable. As this book demonstrates, there is precious little science behind the intelligent design movement, but there is a great deal of politics and religion. Oh, indeed. One of the things that I have found on the occasions when I have travelled to Europe is that many intelligent and influential people on the continent and in the UK look at the intelligent design movement as something quite different from what I would call good old-fashioned creationism. They have been taken in by the idea that this is a genuinely new idea, that it goes back to Aristotle and therefore is somehow respectable and something people should be looking at. This book is a fine antidote to intelligent design because of the way in which it documents the movement’s origins, tactics and ultimate motives."