David's Reviews > Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond

This collection of essays written by evolutionary biologists addresses the theories of creationism and intelligent design. It presents thorough arguments which address the specific points of creationism and explains why it is not only bad science but also why it is unanimously rejected by the scientific community as a reasonable explanation for the origin of the various forms of life. The recent popular publications on intelligent design and their author's methods are also picked apart through several chapters and it is explained in satisfactory fashion to the reader why those writings failed to pass the litmus tests for becoming legitimate scientific hypotheses and eventually accepted scientific theory. This book is a useful tool for any critical thinking student of biology to refer to when trying to understand why the religiously-based origin theories are still accepted by some groups but why they are treated as religious ideas by the education boards, the court systems, and the scientific community as a whole.