Darwinism, Design and Public Education

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Darwinism, Design and Public Education is a 2003 anthology edited by intelligent design activists John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer. The book promotes the Discovery Institute's "teach the controversy" political action plan.

The book is published by Michigan State University Press as part of its Rhetoric & Public Affairs Series.

Contents

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[edit] Peer review

The Discovery Institute lists five chapters as "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design[1], though Mark Isaak of the talk.origins Archive notes that "Anthologies and conference proceedings do not have well-defined peer review standards" and that "reviewers are themselves ardent supporters of intelligent design. The purpose of peer review is to expose errors, weaknesses, and significant omissions in fact and argument. That purpose is not served if the reviewers are uncritical"[2]. The five papers are:

The first three are actually listed twice including once as "featured articles". Meyer's paper on the Cambrian explosion also contains much of the same material which went into another of the claimed peer-reviewed papers which was at the center of the Sternberg peer review controversy[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated), Discovery Institute
  2. ^ CI001.4 Intelligent Design and peer review, Mark Isaak, Index to Creationist Claims, talkorigins.org
  3. ^ Deja vu again. Again., Nick Matzke, The Panda's Thumb weblog, October 2, 2004.

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