John Angus Campbell

is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis.

Stephen C. Meyer

Stephen C. Meyer is Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Meyer has co-written or edited two books: Darwinism, Design, and Public Education and Science and Evidence of Design in the Universe. He has also authored numerous technical articles as well as editorials in magazines and newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, First Things, and the National Review.

Darwinism, Design, & Public Education

John Angus Campbell

Stephen C. Meyer

From the Scopes Trial in 1925 through the action of the Kansas board of education, the teaching of evolution in public schools has been a flashpoint in American education. The evolution of fundamentalist creationism into the proposition of "intelligent design" (ID) in the late 20th century reignited the character of this controversy. Darwinism, Design, and Public Education provides a thorough and readable source of primary literature for and against the rhetoric of intelligent design as a science, a philosophy, and a movement for educational reform.

Reviews

“Darwinism, Design, and Public Education should be read by everyone seeking a...debate about the teaching of evolution in American public schools...this book’s careful yet passionate dialogue actually provides the tools needed by a democratic public to make sense of this difficult controversy.” —James Arnt Aune, Texas A&M University, author of Rhetoric and Marxism and Selling the Free Market

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