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The conflict between creationists and evolutionists has raged ever since the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. And yet, even as generations of Americans have fought and re-fought the same battles, the contours of the debate have in recent years shifted dramatically.
Tracking the dizzying rhetorical heights and opportunistic political lows of this controversy, Larry Witham travels to America's churches, schools, universities, museums, and government agencies to present creationists and evolutionists in their own unfiltered voices. We meet leading creationists and proponents of Intelligent Design such as Michael Behe; evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins; and theistic scientists who describe how they reconcile God and Nature.
Today, Biblical literalism is tempered by the Intelligent Design movement, which finds evidence of God's presence in nature's patterns. The once-dominant "young earth" school has been replaced by a creationism that conscripts the language of science to advance the creationist cause. Meanwhile, evolutionary scientists hesitate to point out gaps in their theories for fear that such self-scrutiny could serve as fodder for anti-evolution propaganda.
In an age marked both by a rising religious tide and daily scientific breakthroughs, Where Darwin Meets the Bible provides the standard account of this lasting conflict.

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"Where Darwin Meets the Bible is the best one-stop account of who's who (and what's what) in the creation-evolution conflict."--Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar, First Amendment Center

"...an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the complex and often divisive debate over the legitimacy of Darwinian evolution...the new standard introduction for those interested in familiarizing themselves with contemporary critiques and defenses of evolutionary theory, but wary of the propagandist tendencies of many recent popular texts."--Religious Studies Review

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Larry Witham, a veteran Washington D.C. journalist, has written widely on science and religion topics, including as a former reporter with The Washington Times. He is the author of eight books.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (May 12, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195182812
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195182811
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1370L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.46 x 0.73 x 6.3 inches

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Larry Witham is an author, editor, journalist, and artist. His fourth novel will appear in Spring 2024 with TouchPoint Press. Witham has written sixteen books, mainly nonfiction. He was a finalist in the 2015 Pen Literary Awards for biography. He began his writing career as a daily newspaper reporter in Washington D.C., a job he held for twenty-one years. He went on to write and edit books full-time. Witham has received several national awards for his newspaper work and books, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series he co-wrote on the clergy in America. He was Project Editor for the ten-volume Templeton Press science-and-religion series, and was editor of Science and Spirit magazine in 2007. A painter by avocation, Witham is currently exploring new art and writing projects. He has a bachelors degree in painting from San Jose State University (1974). Witham lives with his wife in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C.

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Charles F. Guittard

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A Narration of the Political--Not the Scientific--Debate Over Evolution

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2009

I was not originally going to review this book. It seemed at first too pro-intelligent design to warrant my consideration. It is pro-intelligent design to be sure, but it is also a serious book and requires serious discussion. Larry A. Witham, a "Washington Times" journalist, does what journalists do best, conduct interviews, in this case more than 200 of them, with scientists, theologians, a few politicians, a lot of pundits, some think tankers, and far too many cranks to chart the course of the public discussions concerning the politics of life's origin and change over time. But I was wrong, this works makes an important contribution, even if I do not agree with its premise.

The book is framed as a debate, although in reality there is no debate worth reporting. There is the evolutionary theory first advanced by Charles Darwin and modified and added to over the years by thousands of scientists. It is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community; there is no serious alternative to this theory that has even been advanced, let alone one that has gained any credence whatsoever among scientists. What exists is a rock solid consensus with evidence from virtually every scientific discipline, and a few crackpots here and there motivated more by their religious conceptions than their analysis of the data.

At the same time there is a debate, as Witham documents in detail, not over the science but in the political sphere as machinations to advance or condemn intelligent design takes place nationwide. At risk is the process of education, as intelligent design's supporters insist on its teaching along with evolution in science classes everywhere. That political debate is very much unsettled, and it is one of the key issues that will define the future. While all of my studies of this subject led me to support the theory of evolution, this is a useful and quite well done statement of this political situation. I applaud the author for presenting it.

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John C. Landon

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2003

This is an invaluable, and balanced, account of the Darwin debate, with particular attention to the Creationist initiatives of the last generation, climaxing in the Intelligent Design movement with its battle for the schools. The many interviews include vignettes of most of the major players, and help to fill in the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the two camps in ways partisans do not. The period starting with Philip Johnson's Darwin on Trial is especially well covered.
Despite rooting for the science camp, I was struck by the rigidity of the scientific camp and the clear feeling one gets that this is an artificially created culture war that results from the disastrous legacy of reductionist theories promoted ambitiously to rewrite culture from top to bottom. The gang of crackpots that has made evolution service their atheist obsessions has distorted its whole development. That's not a statement in favor of theism in evolution, but of deceptive science used to promote an agenda based on bogus proofs by natural selection. The integrity of science is at risk. The metaphysics of atheism is as severe as the theistic. This has distorted the exposure of the flaws in the theory, all along.
It could never have succeeded and we see the growth of resistance.
What seems surprising and sad is how little the broader spectrum of culture beyond the Creationist niche is aware of or involved in the issues. This abdication of the field by mainstream culture is a puzzle, for the problems with Darwin's theory are not so hard to uncover. One reason is the clear disinformation of overly promoted and under-examined scientism. Part if the reason is the savage attack on the 'two cultures' which were put there to cooperate by constructively opposites perspectives. Now noone would dare think aloud lest they get mauled by the mad horde in the Dawkins jihad.
Since much of the debate is about schools one is struck by the tenacity of scientific obtuseness on evolution, and one must conclude that specialized education is to blame. Scientists tend to be very good about technical subjects but unable to see the broader implications of Darwinism and the harm done by positivistic thinking made general in the name of science. This has nothing to do with religion versus science, as such, and indicates the one dimensional attitude that science in general explains everything, and Darwinism in particular is the great world historical breakthrough that is was not.
This is a very thorough book, and recommended for coming to grips with the cultural politics of evolution.
We need a debriefing of Darwin sometime soon. But the Darwin establishment as this book indicates is so entrenched that this seems unlikely.
It is a scandal that fundamentalists have been the principal party to perform this task. Since I dislike Creationism, that is saying something!

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Look to this Book for History -- Not Answers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2006

Creationism and Evolution have been at loggerheads ever since Darwin's Origin of Species exploded onto the scene in 1859.

Particularly within the United States (which is the prescribed scope of this work,) the contest has been integrated within the political and social weave, especially in terms of education and public policy. Far from diminishing, the battle continues to rage and now the additional wrinkle of Intelligent Design is realigning and redefining the battle.

Witham does a remarkably good job of identifying the major players within the debate and the significant events. He remains remarkably neutral in terms of evaluating the validity of the arguments themselves, and sticks to providing a framework that any reasonable person from either camp, should be able to work through and come away with a better understanding of the issues and how they developed.

This is no small feat given the emotional depth that this argument plums on both sides.

Corallaries exist in terms of defining the arguments on both sides and the interested reader should be able to benefit from the bibliography what they are and where those sources can be found.

If you're approaching this issue in depth for the first time, or even if you already have taken a firm position, you should find this book valuable. You will come away with a better understanding of the history of the conflict and maybe even a better appreciation and understanding of both sides of the argument, if you can maintain enough independence to see it.

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