John Brockman Introduction
Jerry A. Coyne Intelligent Design: The Faith That Dare Not Speak
Its Name
Leonard Susskind The Good Fight
Daniel C. Dennett The Hoax of Intelligent Design and How It Was
Perpetuated
Nicholas Humphrey Consciousness: The Achilles Heel of Darwinism?
Thank God, Not Quite
Tim D. White Human Evolution: The Evidence
Neil H. Shubin The “Great” Transformation
Richard Dawkins Intelligent Aliens
Frank J. Sulloway Why Darwin Rejected Intelligent Design
Scott Atran Unintelligent Design
Steven Pinker Evolution and Ethics
Lee Smolin Darwinism All the Way Down
Stuart A. Kauffman Intelligent Design, Science or Not?
Seth Lloyd How Smart Is the Universe?
Lisa Randall Designing Words
Marc D. Hauser Parental Guidance Required
Scott D. Sampson Evoliteracy
Appendix Excerpt from the Memorandum Opinion of The United States
District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, December
20, 2005
John Brockman is a writer, agent, and publisher of Edge, the "Third Culture" website (www.edge.org), the forum for leading scientists and thinkers to share their research with the general public. He is the author of By The Late John Brockman and The Third Culture and has edited several previous anthologies including The Next Fifty Years, Curious Minds, and My Einstein. He lives in New York City.
“Evolutionary biology certainly hasn’t explained everything that
perplexes biologists, but intelligent design hasn’t yet tried to
explain anything at all.” –Daniel C. Dennett, Philosopher
“Natural selection is not some desperate last resort of a theory.
It is an idea whose plausibility and power hits you between the
eyes with a stunning force, once you understand it in all its
elegant simplicity.” –Richard Dawkins, Evolutionary Biologist
“An evolutionary understanding of the human condition, far from
being incompatible with a moral sense, can explain why we have
one.” –Steven Pinker, Psychologist
Not only is ID markedly inferior to Darwinism at explaining and
understanding nature but in many ways it does not even fulfill the
requirements of a scientific theory. –Jerry A. Coyne, evolutionary
biologist
The geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously declared, “Nothing in
biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” One might
add that nothing in biology makes sense in the light of intelligent
design. –Jerry A. Coyne, evolutionary biologist
Evolutionary biology certainly hasn’t explained everything that
perplexes biologists, but intelligent design hasn’t yet tried to
explain anything at all. —Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and
cognitive scientist
A denial of evolution–however motivated–is a denial of evidence, a
retreat from reason to ignorance. —Tim D. White, paleontologist
Natural selection is not some desperate last resort of a theory. It
is an idea whose plausibility and power hits you between the eyes
with a stunning force, once you understand it in all its elegant
simplicity. —Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist
The supernatural explanation fails to explain because it ducks the
responsibility to explain itself.—Richard Dawkins, evolutionary
biologist
Nothing indicates that people who believe that life arose by chance
also believe that morality is haphazard. —Scott Atran,
anthropologist and psychologist
An evolutionary understanding of the human condition, far from
being incompatible with a moral sense, can explain why we have one.
—Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist
To state that a given organ is so improbable that it requires
design is just ill founded. The argument uses standard probability,
which does not apply to the evolution of the biosphere. —Stuart A.
Kauffman, theoretical biologist
We don’t have an intelligent designer (ID), we have a bungling
consistent evolver (BCE). Or maybe an adaptive changer (AC). In
fact, what we have in the most economical interpretation is, of
course, evolution. —Lisa Randall, physicist
What counts as a controversy must be delineated with care, as we
want students to distinguish between scientific challenges and
sociopolitical ones. —Marc D. Hauser, evolutionary psychologist
Incredulity doesn’t count as an alternative position or critique.
—Marc D. Hauser, evolutionary psychologist
Rather than removing meaning from life, an evolutionary perspective
can and should fill us with a sense of wonder at the rich sequence
of natural systems that gave us birth and continues to sustain us.
—Scott D. Sampson, paleontologist
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