Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism
'A rich mine of often-overlooked information, personal interpretations of the history of science that are provocative and sometimes astonishing, and a sceptical sociologist's view of the grand narrative that science, and especially the neo-Darwinian synthesis, is apt to claim for itself.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education 'The richness and complexity of argument defy critical summary.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education 'Fuller's account of Biblical literalism also looks unlike what anyone else means by it. He says literalism is not a plain descriptive account or 'fixed doctrine', but an 'act of communication' demanding a personal response. But in biblical hermeneutics, this is just what is opposed to 'literalism'. So his positive view turns out to be idiosyncratic and possibly misleading - what he defends is rarely what the people he defends think.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education 'He achieves his aims of forcing readers to re-examine the terms of the evolution versus intelligent design debate, to see how ID-type views have driven scientists in the past, and to question a view of science as "a unified mode of inquiry with a uniquely progressive character." Even should the book fail to convince, it will certainly not fail to stimulate.' -- Keith Ward, Times Higher Education 'Bold, original and intensely thought-provoking.' -- Thomas Dixon, Cambridge Journals