American Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design in the Evangelical Market

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Huskinson
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Creation Science

Arguing from the Evidence

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Thomasson
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
Federal Case ◽  
The Creation

In Kitzmiller v. Dover (2005), the only U.S. federal case on teaching Intelligent Design in public schools, the plaintiffs used the same argument as in the creation-science trials of the 1980s: Intelligent Design is religion, not science, because it invokes the supernatural; thus teaching it violates the Constitution. Although the plaintiffs won, this strategy is unwise because it is based on problematic definitions of religion and science, leads to multiple truths in society, and is unlikely to succeed before the present right-leaning Supreme Court. I suggest discarding past approaches in favor of arguing solely from the evidence for evolution.

Anti-intellectualism and anti-evolutionism: Lessons from Hofstadter

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Glenn Branch
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
American Life ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
The Face ◽  
Science Educators

The forces of anti-intellectualism in American life, as described by Richard Hofstadter, have been especially prominent in the battle against the teaching of evolution. Glenn Branch discusses the different aspects of anti-intellectualism that are at the root of objections to evolution and explains how creation science, which had a transparently religious motivation, eventually gave way to intelligent design, which was less explicit in its religious aims. In the face of constitutional challenges, these modes of anti-evolutionism have been largely replaced by discourse that misrepresents evolution as “just a theory” and that misleadingly portrays miseducation about evolution as a matter of intellectual freedom. Branch then suggests how, by understanding the anti-intellectual roots of objections to evolution, science educators might teach evolution more effectively.

scholarly journals Understanding creation science and intelligent design

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Branch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
Central Argument

AbstractIn American Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design in the Evangelical Market, Benjamin Huskinson presents a close examination of the two main American sociopolitical movements launched in opposition to evolution during the second half of the twentieth century: creation science and intelligent design. Despite a failure of a central argument and a handful of errors, the book is a welcome and valuable interrogation of the stereotypes of American creationism.

Intelligent Design and Resurgent Creationism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Caudill
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
The Face

This chapter examines the antievolutionists' move away from arguing with scientists and toward providing a scientific-sounding argument for mass consumption, usually in the guise of “intelligent design” (ID)—a tactic that allowed creationism to appeal to a broader audience. It first considers initiatives meant to make creationism attractive to the scientifically unlettered before discussing how proponents made individual rights and freedom of expression consistent themes in the fight to teach creationism in public schools. It then looks at two books that reenergized the fight against evolution and became central to the new offensive: Phillip E. Johnson's Darwin on Trial (1991) and Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box (1996). It also describes the approaches adopted by creationists in the face of court rulings that rejected the teaching of creationism and ID in public schools. The chapter concludes with an assessment of ID advocates' “wedge strategy,” The Wedge Document, and the collection of papers titled Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design.

Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-162
Author(s):  
Lydia McGrew ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Creation Science

From the Scopes Trial to Darwin on Trial

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Caudill
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Scopes Trial ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
Fundamentalist Movement ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter examines the transformation of the creationist movement after William Jennings Bryan's death and the Scopes trial. When Bryan died, fundamentalism was thrown into some disarray. However, creationists were also forced to reorganize and rethink his progressive politics and liberal interpretation. During the next few years, several individuals campaigned to become Bryan's successor, from George F. Washburn to Paul Rood and Gerald Winrod. This chapter begins with a discussion of changes in the fundamentalist movement after Scopes, with particular emphasis on the rise of creationism. It then considers the growth of religion, and religiosity in general, during the 1950s and 1960s, highlighted by the emergence of televangelists led by Billy Graham, and the “culture war” of the 1980s and 1990s. It also analyzes the book The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (1961), by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb; the so-called “decade of creation” in the 1970s; and the evolution of “creation-science” into “intelligent design.”

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