Question: Icons of Evolution was written by a professor who was devoted to destroying what theory? 

Context articles: Karl Gegenbaur
Michael Majerus
Icons of Evolution
John Scales Avery
Brian Skyrms
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
Jerry Coyne
Phillip E. Johnson
John H. Gillespie
Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate)

Karl Gegenbaur (21 August 1826 – 14 June 1903) was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution.
 As a professor of anatomy at the University of Jena (1855–1873) and at the University of Heidelberg (1873–1903), Karl Gegenbaur was a strong supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution, having taught and worked, beginning in 1858, with Ernst Haeckel, 8 years his junior.
Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus (13 February 1954 – 27 January 2009) was a British geneticist and Professor of Evolution at the University of Cambridge.
 He was also a Teaching Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
 He was an enthusiast in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and became a world authority in his field of insect evolutionary biology.
 He was widely noted for his work on moths and ladybirds and as an advocate of the science of evolution.
 He was also an enthusiastic educator and the author of several books on insects, evolution and sexual reproduction.
 He is best remembered as an ardent supporter and champion of experiments on peppered moth evolution.
Icons of Evolution is a book by Jonathan Wells, an intelligent design advocate and fellow of the Discovery Institute, in which Wells criticized the paradigm of evolution by attacking how it is taught.
 The book includes a 2002 video companion.
 In 2000, Wells summarized the book's contents in an article in the "American Spectator".
 Several of the scientists whose work is sourced in the book have written rebuttals to Wells, stating that they were quoted out of context, that their work has been misrepresented, or that it does not imply Wells' conclusions.
John Scales Avery (born in 1933 in Lebanon to American parents) is a theoretical chemist noted for his research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science.
 Since the early 1990s, Avery has been an active World peace activist.
 During these years, he was part of a group associated with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
 In 1995, this group received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.
 Presently, he is an Associate Professor in quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen.
 His 2003 book "Information Theory and Evolution" set forth the view that the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution, that including human cultural evolution, has it background situated over thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory.
Brian Skyrms (born 1938) is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
 He has worked on problems in the philosophy of science, causation, decision theory, game theory, and the foundations of probability.
 Most recently, his work has focused on the evolution of social norms using evolutionary game theory.
 His two recent books "Evolution of the Social Contract" and "The Stag Hunt" are both on this topic.
 These books use arguments and examples from evolutionary game theory to cover topics of interest to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of biology.
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is an influential monograph written in 1983 by Japanese evolutionary biologist Motoo Kimura.
 While the neutral theory of molecular evolution existed since his article in 1968, Kimura felt the need to write a monograph with up-to-date information and evidences showing the importance of his theory in evolution.
Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) is an American biologist, known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design.
 A prolific scientist and author, he has published dozens of papers elucidating the theory of evolution.
 He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution.
 His concentration is speciation and ecological and evolutionary genetics, particularly as they involve the fruit fly, "Drosophila".
 He is the author of the text "Speciation" and the bestselling non-fiction book "Why Evolution Is True".
 Coyne maintains a website also called "Why Evolution Is True".
 He self-identifies as a determinist of the incompatibilistic variety.
Phillip E. Johnson (born June 18, 1940) is a retired UC Berkeley law professor and author who is considered the father of the intelligent design movement.
 He is a critic of Darwinism, which he has described as "fully naturalistic evolution, involving chance mechanisms and natural selection".
 Johnson has said he believes "that a God exists who could create out of nothing if He wanted to do so, but who also might have chosen to work through a natural evolutionary process instead".
 Johnson rejects that evolution is a fact and favors neo-creationary views known as intelligent design (ID).
 He was a co-founder of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC) and is credited with establishing the wedge strategy, which aims to change public opinion and scientific consensus, and seeks to convince the scientific community to allow a role for theism, or causes beyond naturalistic explanation, in scientific discourse.
 The consensus of the scientific community considers Johnson's opinions on evolution to be pseudoscience.
 Johnson has argued that scientists accepted the theory of evolution "before it was rigorously tested, and thereafter used all their authority to convince the public that naturalistic processes are sufficient to produce a human from a bacterium, and a bacterium from a mix of chemicals."
John H. Gillespie is an evolutionary biologist interested in theoretical population genetics and molecular evolution.
 In molecular evolution, he emphasized the importance of advantageous mutations and balancing selection.
 For that reason, Gillespie is well known for his selectionist stance in the neutralist-selectionist debate.
 He is widely considered the main proponent of natural selection in molecular evolution.
 He had a well-known feud with the father of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, Motoo Kimura, initiated by a review in Science of Kimura's book in which Gillespie criticized Kimura for "using the book as a vehicle to establish for himself a niche in the history of science."
 Gillespie had only four PhD students during his career, Richard Hudson, James N. McNair, David Cutler, and Andrew Kern.
 Gillespie was a professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis until his retirement in 2005.
John Corrigan "Jonathan" Wells (born 1942) is an American molecular biologist, author and advocate of the pseudoscientific argument of intelligent design.
 Wells joined the Unification Church in 1974, and subsequently wrote that the teachings of church founder Sun Myung Moon, his own studies at the Unification Theological Seminary and his prayers convinced him to devote his life to "destroying Darwinism."
 The term "Darwinism" is often used by intelligent design proponents to refer to the scientific consensus on evolution.
 He gained a PhD in religious studies at Yale University in 1986, then became Director of the Unification Church’s inter-religious outreach organization in New York City.
 In 1989, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in molecular and cellular biology in 1994.
 He became a member of several scientific associations and has published in academic journals.