Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design [Hardcover]

The authors contend, and support their contention with fact, that the absence of scientific evidence to support the concept of intelligent design is not all that important to its advocates, for the goal of these individuals is simply to use this concept as a wedge to convince the general public and its political leaders that intelligent design is a scientific theory sufficiently plausible to warrant inclusion in the scientific curriculum as a logical alternative to the theory of evolution. This goal achieved, pseudo-science will have a firm place in biological instruction, students will receive a wrongful education, and science itself will be maimed.

This book should be studied carefully by all who would preserve the integrity of science education in our schools. It will serve as an excellent manual for those called upon to defend the integrity of state courses of study in science against expected assaults by intelligent design advocates in the upcoming, cyclic reviews by state departments of education.

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m93k2y8 wrote in a review above
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If one is truly interested in what intelligent design scientists actually propose, one will be much better off reading what they actually say. In my opinion, William Dembski's No Free Lunch would be a good start.
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OK, we have an ID proponent here pushing Dembski's bogus "No Free Lunch". Do you want to see what's wrong with Dembski's work? Well, you could start by reading the article at http://www.talkreason.org/articles/jello.cfm, which was written by David Wolpert, co-author of the original paper describing the No Free Lunch theorems! The fact that one of the original No Free Lunch authors has taken some time out of his busy schedule to trash Dembski's "No Free Lunch" should tell you everything you need to know about Dembski.

The book's chapters cover the history of the Wedge strategy, the content of the leaked Wedge document which set out that strategy, the results of scouring the scientific literature for any publications by Wedge advocates supporting "intelligent design" (none found), an examination of the intelligent design work of Paul Chien and Michael Behe, an examination of the work of Jonathan Wells and William Dembski, documentation of what the Discovery Institute has actually been up to (two chapters, and "doing scientific research" is conspicuously absent from the list), a look at the political efforts of the Wedge, and finally, documentation of the religious grounds and goals of the Wedge.

This book shows the dishonesty and hypocrisy of the intelligent design theorists, using their own words to convict them. This book should be read by anyone who advocates intelligent design creationism, or who thinks that it may belong in the school science curriculum (as opposed to university-level philosophy or social studies of science curricula).