Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

[ from the book ]

In this book, bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how the newest brand of creationism appeals to out predisposition to look for a designer behind life's complexity. 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, who for a number of years was himself an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents are invoking a combination of bad science, political ideology and flawed theology. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. Casting a skeptical eye on all aspects of the debate, he appraises the evolutionary questions that truly need to be settled, building a powerful argument for science itself.