Comfort / Gilbert / Larson The Panda's Black Box

Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9690-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

The debate over Intelligent Design seemingly represents an extension of the fundamental conflict between creationists and evolutionists. ID proponents, drawing on texts such as Darwin's Black Box and Of Pandas and People, urge schools to "teach the controversy" in biology class alongside evolution. The scientific mainstream has reacted with fury, branding Intelligent Design as pseudoscience and its advocates as religious fanatics.

But stridency misses the point, argues Nathaniel Comfort. In The Panda's Black Box, Comfort joins five other leading public intellectuals—including Daniel Kevles and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Larson—to explain the roots of the controversy and explore the intellectual, social, and cultural factors that continue to shape it.

One of the few books on the ID issue that moves beyond mere name-calling and finger-pointing, The Panda's Black Box challenges assumptions on each side of the debate and engages both the appeal and dangers of Intelligent Design. This lively collection will appeal to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of what's really at stake in the debate over evolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Scott

Larson, Edward J.

Maienschein, Jane

Ruse, Michael

Young, Robert M.

Comfort, Nathaniel C.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kevles, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contirbutors
Foreword by Daniel J. Kevles

1. Intorductions: The Panda's Black Box
2. The Argument from Design
3. The Aerodynamics of Flying Carpets: Why Biologists are Loath to "Tech the Controversy"
4. The Classroom Controversy: A History of the Dispute over Teahcing Evolution
5. Untangling Debates about Science and Religion
6. Intelligent Design: A Sympton of Metaphysical Malaise

Notes
Futher Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Larson, Edward J.
Edward J. Larson is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. He served as associate counsel with the U.S. House of Representatives and is the author of Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution.

Gilbert, Scott
Scott F. Gilbert teaches in the Department of Biology at Swarthmore College. He is the author of Developmental Biology.

Nathaniel C. Comfort is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.