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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
Michael Shermer
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
Michael Shermer
"Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer. He's actually a very renowned skeptic that I hadn't encountered yet until I came across this book. Looking at and reading summaries and excerpts of his books from a few years ago, it seemed clear that I might as well jump to this book as my introduction to a full book by Michael Shermer because of my particular interest in the intelligent design/evolution tensions which of course are unique to the United States.
Why Darwin Matters is about defending both the obvious strengths and powerful scientific grounding of evolutionary theory and the beauty and reference that's to be found in approaching the biological world in particular from that vantage point. I think he comes out on the side of, for him, that spirituality is to be found -- very similar to Stephen J. Gould is my basic take of where he comes from personally -- that spirituality is to be found in appreciating the world through science. Now, I suppose you could look at the long chapter in the middle on the various arguments for intelligent design as being somewhat disingenuous 'cause he presents himself as sort of giving voice to these intelligent design folks; and really, to get that more directly, you'd have to read one of their books.
I think it's obvious that Why Darwin Matters is a five-star book. I would not want to assume that Why Darwin Matters would be a horrifically unpleasant read for an intelligent design person, for a religious person who doesn't know much yet about evolution, whose maybe high school and such education was fairly weak. I would want to assume that all such folks could read something like this, and approach in it in their own way, and get something out of it, and have it be part of their ongoing development."
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