Why Darwin Matters
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781437958676 (1437958672)
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company
Pages no: 199
Edition language: English
Shermer may not be making any new arguments in the debate between evolution and Intelligent Design but this small book does the best job in articulating the questions, the weapons and the battlefield. Three and a half stars.
The bit I liked best in this book was his categorisation of the different shades of belief in the Intelligent Design/Creationism spectrum. I hadn't understood that there was such a lot of variety; points of view range from the straightforwardly loopy (the world was created in 4004 B.C. and there wer...