The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy - Hardcover
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.
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Nathaniel C. Comfort is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
A valuable source... should be required reading for zealots and is recommended for those interested in ID.
(Fraser Fleming Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 2008-01-00)It [ The Panda's Black Box] convincingly argues against the extremes of both the reductionist paradigm that is dominant today and intelligent design. As such, it adds an important and gentler dimension to the debate between intelligent design and evolutionary theory.
(W. Malcolm Byrnes National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 2008-01-00)An accessible reader that quickly and deftly surveys the current evolution-['intelligent design'] debates from a range of philosophical and historical angles.
(Glenn Sanford National Center for Science Education 2010-01-00)The Panda's Black Box is an accessible reader that quickly and deftly surveys the current evolution-ID debates from a range of philosophical and historical angles.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 080188599X
- ISBN 13 9780801885990
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages184
- EditorComfort Nathaniel C.
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