Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism - Hardcover

Fuller, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840468041 ISBN 13: 9781840468045

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Iconoclastic and provocative as ever, Steve Fuller makes us think again about intelligent design and evolution.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Fuller has appeared on Radio 4's 'Today', Radio 3's 'Nightwaves' and Channel 4's 'Trial of the 21st Century'. He has written for the Independent, the New Scientist and the New York Times, among others. Fuller is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Review:

`A rich mine of often-overlooked information, personal interpretations of the history of science that are provocative and sometimes astonishing, and a sceptical sociologist's view of the grand narrative that science, and especially the neo-Darwinian synthesis, is apt to claim for itself.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education `The richness and complexity of argument defy critical summary.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education `Fuller's account of Biblical literalism also looks unlike what anyone else means by it. He says literalism is not a plain descriptive account or 'fixed doctrine', but an 'act of communication' demanding a personal response. But in biblical hermeneutics, this is just what is opposed to 'literalism'. So his positive view turns out to be idiosyncratic and possibly misleading - what he defends is rarely what the people he defends think.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education `He achieves his aims of forcing readers to re-examine the terms of the evolution versus intelligent design debate, to see how ID-type views have driven scientists in the past, and to question a view of science as "a unified mode of inquiry with a uniquely progressive character." Even should the book fail to convince, it will certainly not fail to stimulate.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education `Bold, original and intensely thought-provoking.' -- Thomas Dixon, Cambridge Journals

About this edition

• Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1840468041
• ISBN 13: 9781840468045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272