Fuller, Steve (2008) Dissent over descent : intelligent design's challenge to Darwinism. Thriplow: Icon Books. ISBN 9781840468045

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Abstract

If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again...IDT has driven science for 500 years. It was responsible for the 17th century's Scientific Revolution and helped build modern histories of physics, mathematics, genetics and social science. IDT's proponents take literally the Biblical idea that humans have been created in God's image. This confident, even arrogant, view of humanity enabled the West to triumph in the modern era. Evolution, on the other hand, derives from more ancient, even pagan, ideas about our rootedness in nature and the transience of all life forms. It has been always more popular outside the West, and until Darwin few evolutionists were scientists. What happened to reverse these two movements' fortunes? Steve Fuller's brilliant revisionist history is essential reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of science's most vociferous debate.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Publisher:	Icon Books
Place of Publication:	Thriplow
ISBN:	9781840468045
Official Date:	2008
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Number of Pages:	272
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published

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