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Thomson,
Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 20.
    3 Ibid., p. 6.
    4 Charles Darwin,
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(London: John Murray, 1859).
    5 Michael Shermer,
In Darwin’s Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace
(Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
    6 Phillip E. Johnson,
Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism
(Dallas, TX: Haughton Publishing Co., 1990);
Darwin on Trial
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1991);
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995);
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997);
The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001).
    7 Ronald Numbers,
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992).
    8 John C. Whitcomb Jr. and Henry M. Morris,
The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications
(Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1961).
    9 William R. Overton,
McLean v. Arkansas,
U.S. Dist. Ct. Opinion, 1982; Michael Ruse, ed.,
But Is It Science? The Philosophical Questions in
the Creation/Evolution Controversy
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996), pp. 307-31.
    10 Michael J. Behe,
Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
(New York: Free Press, 1996); William A. Dembski,
The Design Inference
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998);
Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999);
No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
    11 Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross,
Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
    12 Robert Dorit, review of
Darwin’s Black Box
by Michael Behe,
American Scientist
(September-October 1997); H. Allen Orr, “Darwin v.
    Intelligent Design (Again): The Latest Attack on Evolution Is Cleverly Argued, Biologically Informed—And Wrong,”
Boston Review
(1998); Brandon Fitelson, Christopher Stephens, and Elliott Sober, “How Not to Detect Design—Critical Notice: William A. Dembski, “The Design Inference,”
Philosophy of Science
66, no. 3 (1999): 472-88; Kenneth R. Miller,
Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for a Common Ground between God and Evolution
(New York: HarperCollins, 1999); Robert T. Pennock,
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999); Niall Shanks and Karl H. Joplin, “Redundant Complexity: A Critical Analysis of Intelligent Design in Biochemistry,”
Philosophy of Science
66 (1999): 268-98; Taner Edis, “Darwin in Mind: ‘Intelligent Design’ Meets Artificial Intelligence,”
Skeptical Inquirer
25, no. 2 (2001): 35-39; James Rachels and David Roche, “A Bit Confused: Creationism and Information Theory,”
Skeptical Inquirer
25, no. 2 (2001): 40-42; Jeffery Shallit, review of No
Free Lunch
by William Dembski,
Biosystems
66, nos. 1-2 (2002): 93-99; Mark Perakh,
Unintelligent Design
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003); Forrest and Gross,
Creationism’s Trojan Horse;
Matt Young and Taner Edis, eds.,
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004). For my own discussion, see Victor J. Stenger,
Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), chap. 4. Young and Edis contains a complete listing of current Internet sites discussing both sides of the issue.
    13 A review by one of the main promoters of intelligent design has been published in the journal of a small biological society. See Stephen C. Meyer, “The Origin of Biological Information and