Author: Shanks, Niall.
Title: God, the devil and Darwin. A critique of Intelligent Design theory.
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; xvi+273pp., index, biobliography, glossary, 8vo, boards w. dust jacket. As new. Foreword by Richard Dawkins. ¶ ID theory is the follow-up of creation 'science' and it tries to claim scientific status. ID theorists "reject many of the silly claims that made creation science laughable [... and they] tend to downplay the religious nature of their arguments as part of a wedge strategy to have religion taught in schools. The ID movement is inextricably intertwined with extremist conservative politics and social agendas." (p. 252). Dawkins, in his Foreword, adds: "evolution has become a battlefield on which the forces of enlightenment confront the dark powers of ignorance and regression."

Keywords: creationisme evolutietheorie intelligent design theory