After more than a hundren years of on-going and often polemical debate, especially when one side feels that their eternal state depends on their adhering to their view, the literature is voluminous. Most of them are of a quality that is at best mediocre, doing nothing more than rehashing the old lines of arguments in new forms. The works cited here are those that have been used in the preparation of this course, whether they are actually cited or not. I had originally thought of listing the literature under different categories (e.g., Darwinism, ID, Creationism) but have decided against it. The truth is that the discussion on evolution is now so intertwined and the overlap so significant, such a 'categorized' listing would be meaningless.
Denis Alexander, Creation or Evolution. Do We Have To Choose? Oxford: Monarch Books, 2008.
Francisco Ayala, Darwin and Intelligent Design. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Michael J. Behe, William A. Dembski, and Stephen J. Meyer, Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe. San Franscisco: Ignatius, 2000.
Michael Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. New York: The Free Press, 2007.
R. J. Berry and T. A. Noble, eds., Darwin, Creation and the Fall. Theological challenges. Leicester: Apollos, 2009.
Charles A. Bleckmann, "Evolution and Creationism in Science," BioScience 56 (2006): 151-58.
Peter J. Bowler, Evolution. The History of an Idea. 3rd ed.,Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,2003.
John B. Cobb, Jr., Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution. Grand Rapids: Eerdmns, 2008.
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Purpose. New York: Norton, 1966.
Donald W. Dayton, "Creationism in Twentieth-Century America," Zygon 32 (1997): 105-13.
William A. Dembski, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilitities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Religion. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999.
W. A. Dembski, ed., Darwin's Nemesis: Philip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2006.
Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Charles Foster, The Selfless Gene. Living with God and Darwin. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.
Robert Huxley, ed. The Great Naturalists. London: Thames & Hudson, in association with the Natural History Museum, 2007.
Phillip E. Johnson, Testing Darwinism. An Easy-To-Understand Guide. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1997.
Philip Johnson, Darwin on Trial. 2nd ed. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.
J. Kushiner and W. A. Dembski, eds., Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2001.
Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009.
Stephen C. Meyer, Darwin's Doubt. The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. New York: HarperOne, 2013.
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists. The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Science, Religion, and Naturalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. See esp., pp.225-64.
Mark Ridley, ed., Evolution. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Tatha Wiley, Creationism and the Conflict over Evolution. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2009. Not a great book by any means, and Wiley's arguments are not likely to persuade anyone who is not already in the choir, but it provides an important and much needed voice from a Roman Catholic point of view, something we do not hear enough in this debate.
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