- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc (25 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1596980133
- ISBN-13: 978-1596980136
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 594,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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You think you know about Darwinism and intelligent design, but did you know: there is no overwhelming evidence for Darwinism; intelligent design is based on scientific evidence, not religious belief; what many public schools teach about Darwinism is based on known falsehoods; scientists at major universities believe in intelligent design; scientists who question Darwinism are punished - by public institutions using your tax dollars. Battle-hardened veteran with doctorates in biology and theology sets the record straight in "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design".
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42 of 68 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read many reviews that condemn Wells' book when looking for mistakes or other problems with the book, but none of the reviews mentioned any valid reasons for condemning his work. I fail to see what is so controversial in this book, aside from the fact that it supports one side only. Books often do that. If you want to read about the other side, one often has to read another book. I do this all the time. Most everyone has a position on most controversial issues, and one expects a writer to take a position when writing a book. This book tells one side which should be considered when any issue is studied. I found a few things I would quibble with, but most of the book was well documented (I looked up many of the references and found no case where the information was taken out of context or misinterpreted). One quibble I have is Wells noted several examples of putative speciation and showed they did not pan out after more research. As Wells noted, Coyne and Orr listed 25 definitions for speciation, showing it is a very problematic concept. All one has to do is find an example of a change that fits one of these definitions, such as two life forms that at one time could reproduce but in time no longer can sexually reproduce, and you have proved speciation. An example would be Great Danes and a Chihuahuas can no longer interbreed, although they were both bred from dogs that go back to the wolf. These two breeds were bred by humans and one could call them two different species, proving speciation. Of course no one does this even though this example clearly fits the common definition of speciation. Yet examples exist where claims are made that speciation occurred by selecting one of the 25 potential definitions that fits and running with it.
10 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Wells and others are entitled to attack neo-Darwinian theory, and to object to the scandalous way that critics of that theory are sometimes treated. Unfortunately, this book is poorly researched: Wells either misunderstands or consciously misrepresents the neo-Darwinian case - especially when describing Richard Dawkins' demonstration that significant order can be elicited quite quickly from chaos. There are indeed problems about how one viable organism can be the ancestor of another viable organism when intervening stages, almost by definition, must be less adapted than either the first or the last stage, but these problems have answers, well described in the literature. It isn't absurd to think we might detect signs of intelligent design (that is what SETI tries to do), and it isn't absurd to wonder whether some features of our evolutionary history have been, in some way, manipulated, by something or other. Nor is it absurd to think that natural laws, archetypes and ideals have a part to play in that history. But this is too polemical and too ignorant a book to persuade anyone not already convinced that there is an establishment conspiracy against the theory of 'intelligent design'.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I've bought this book primarily because I was looking for a relatively objective book on darwinism versus ID. In short, this book wasn't it. I'd like to point out I'm not a fanatic on either side of the fence, it's just an interest of mine.
To begin with, this book is far from objective. That in and by itself is fine as it's certainly not the only book that takes either side of the debate. What I object to however is that I cant escape the feeling that this book does little more than bash darwinism in a way that's not at all convincing. The author certainly makes a few valid points but even those seem to get somewhat distorted by the author's almost religious devotion to ID, this at the cost of some credibility. I eventually managed to read through the entire book but it took some effort. Another small pet peeve is that the book is extremely repetitive. Some points are repeated (I counted) 7 times. There's only so many times a bad analogy involving pig intestines hits home.
Look further.
To begin with, this book is far from objective. That in and by itself is fine as it's certainly not the only book that takes either side of the debate. What I object to however is that I cant escape the feeling that this book does little more than bash darwinism in a way that's not at all convincing. The author certainly makes a few valid points but even those seem to get somewhat distorted by the author's almost religious devotion to ID, this at the cost of some credibility. I eventually managed to read through the entire book but it took some effort. Another small pet peeve is that the book is extremely repetitive. Some points are repeated (I counted) 7 times. There's only so many times a bad analogy involving pig intestines hits home.
Look further.
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Never mind "politically incorrect", it is just "incorrect"
I lokk forward to other books in this series "The Politically Incorrect Guide to why the world is flat", "The Politically Incorrect Guide to why the sun goes around the earth" or... Read more
Published on 1 July 2008 by R. J. M. Baines
Incorrect is The Key Word
If this book was called "The Scientifically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design", I'd give it 5 stars for honesty. Read more
Published on 25 April 2007 by jcmacc
Incorrect, yes
I suppose it depends on your point of view but I was lucky to have this book on an overnight flight from Tampa to London last summer and it passed the time admirably. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2006 by A. D. Crysell
Brilliant summation of the Issues with great Witt !
Wells does it again ! Icons of evolution was a masterpiece, and this keeps up the easy-to-read and hit-the-nail-on-the-head style that will make it so accessible to all. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2006 by Bradley Hough
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