Why Darwin Matters The Case Against Intelligent Design [Paperback]

Shermer is savage about the shortcomings of intelligent design
and eloquent about the spirituality of science . . . An invaluable primer.
Los Angeles Times Book Review

Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and intelligent-design campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology.

InWhy Darwin Matters, bestselling author Michael Shermer decodes the scientific evidence to show that evolution is not just a theory and illustrates how it achieves the design of life through the bottom-up process of natural selection. Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that intelligent-design proponents are invoking a combination of bad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. Cutting the politics away from the facts,Why Darwin Mattersis an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.

Michael Shermeris the author ofThe Believing Brain,Why People Believe Weird Things,The Science of Good and Evil,The Mind Of The Market,Why Darwin Matters,Science Friction,How We Believeand other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher ofSkepticmagazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist forScientific American, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Southern California.

The idea that evolution and God should be at odds is among the strangest of doctrines, an attempt to make the divine follow our particular notions of how He should operate. Michael Shermer explains what really happened, in terms that should be accessible to any faithful reader. Bill McKibben

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