Point of View: Intelligent Design: Jonathan Wells and the Tree of Life

by: Thomas Gregg

In recent years, the intelligent design (ID) movement has been very successful in attracting the attention of the general public. The ID movement is centered predominantly at the Center for Science and Culture in the very conservative think tank, the Discovery Institute, of Seattle, Washington. It has gained this attention by completely bypassing scientific channels and going directly to the general public, primarily in the form of op-ed articles, talk-show and TV appearances, and by making their anti-evolution books and video documentaries widely available, especially to school administrators, school boards, teachers, and legislators. The defeat of ID in the highly publicized Dover, Pennsylvania trial will not slow the movement down.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2007Stock # jcst07_036_07_10Volume 036Issue 07

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