Darwinism, Design and Public Education is a 2003 anthology, consisting largely of rewritten versions of essays from a 1998 issue of Michigan State University Press's journal, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, edited by intelligent design activists John Angus Campbell (who serves on the journal's editorial board) and Stephen C. Meyer., Barbara Forrest, Integrative and Comparative Biology 2004 44(6):510-513 The book was promoted as being a "peer-reviewed science book".Teaching Darwinism & Design, Publicity website for Darwinism, Design and Public Education It is written by advocates of intelligent design, and consists of pro-evolution essays.
The book purports to address the question of "[s]hould public school science teachers be free to teach the controversies over biological origins" and promotes the Discovery Institute's "teach the controversy" political action plan, whilst claiming "not to advocate the theory of ID."Why Are We Still Debating Darwinism? Why Not Teach the Controversy?, John Angus Campbell This denial is later undercut by claiming that an understanding of ID is needed "to understand Darwin's argument, to say nothing of the contemporary controversy that it continues to generate".
Representation of intelligent design
In his introduction, Campbell states:
Forrest rebuts these three assertions by pointing out that:
Peer review
The Discovery Institute lists five chapters as "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design,Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated), Discovery Institute although 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".CI001.4 Intelligent Design and peer review, Mark Isaak, Index to Creationist Claims, talkorigins.org The five papers are: DNA and the origin of life, Information, specification and explanation Stephen C. Meyer Design in the details: The origin of biomolecular machines, Michael Behe Reinstating design within science, William Dembski Homology in biology: Problem for naturalistic science and prospect for intelligent design Paul Nelson (creationist) and Jonathan Wells The Cambrian explosion: biology’s big bang, Stephen C. Meyer, Marcus Ross, Paul Nelson, and Paul Chien
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.Deja vu again. Again. , Nick Matzke, The Panda's Thumb weblog, October 2, 2004.
See also List of works on intelligent design
References
External links Publicity website for Darwinism, Design and Public Education Michigan State University Press page