Why Intelligent Design Fails edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis, Rutgers, $39.95/£26.95, ISBN 081353433X
The Cultures of Creationism edited by Simon Coleman and Leslie Carlin, Ashgate, $79.95/£45, ISBN 075460912X Reviewed by Mike Holderness
A DOCUMENT entitled The Wedge Strategy, circulating since 1999 in creationist circles, declares its goals are “to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies [and] to replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God”.
The thin end of “the wedge” is to induce US states to “rectify ideological imbalance in their science curricula”. That, decoded, means getting “intelligent…
