Teaching Intelligent Design

Essential Viewpoints

by Hal Marcovitz

Discusses teaching intelligent design in schools, and includes information on the legal and educational history, social and religious issues, and advancing scientific technology.

Genres: Nonfiction

112 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Hal Marcovitz has been making his living as a writer for more than a quarter-century. He has worked as a reporter and columnist for several daily newspapers, and can now be found reporting for The Morning Call of Allentown, PA, where he covers government and politics in the Bucks County Courthouse in suburban Philadelphia.

Hal is also the author of more than 50 nonfiction books for young readers. He has written biographies of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, civil rights leader Al Sharpton, farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, and film director Ron Howard. He has also written about the lives of several presidents, including Bill Clinton, John Adams, James Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy.

Hal lives in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Gail, and daughters Ashley and Michelle.

Reviews

[Jody Mena]

I'm not terribly impressed, it was more a glorified pamphlet than an actual book. However, it did represent both sides of the issue tolerably well (even though it oversimplified evolutionary theory in my opinion, and went into things like Social Darwinism and eugenics, and felt like either pure filler, or else red herring propaganda). It offered a decent history of the debate, which was helpful. In the end, for me this book did help confirm one thing - Creationism, if it is to be called a science, is a pseudo-science; rather than forming a hypothesis, then experimenting to reach a conclusion, Creationists start out with what they believe to be a foregone conclusion based on the word of a 2000 year old religious text, and then experiment and theorize in an effort to find physical evidence to support it. I think it would be interesting to teach ID in a philosophy class, but since it is not a proper science, then it should not be taught in science class, and that is what I got out of this book. Hopefully others will as well.

[Lorie · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent, objective coverage of a controversial and timely topic...i'm anxious to see more topcs discussed in this format abdopublishing.com