The proponents of Intelligent Design seek nothing less than a true scientific revolution, an uprising of the first order that would do a great deal more than just displace Darwin from our textbooks and curricula. They seek the undoing of four centuries of Western science, and that surely should be enough to make anyone sit up and pay attention.
Reprinted from Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul by Kenneth R. Miller, © 2008. With permission of the publisher, Viking.