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Recently a new battle has emerged between science and religion. The battle has focused on intelligent design (ID) and the numerous legal, philosophical, and educational concerns surrounding it. Resolution of these concerns centers on two questions: Is ID science? And is ID religion? Despite the fact that ID does not meet the standards of scientific rigor, ID proponents have been able to create a remarkably well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse. Both the ID movement and some of its most vociferous opponents have a vested interest in suggesting that science, especially evolutionary biology, and religion are incompatible. This book presents a philosophical and legal counterpoint by demonstrating the compatibility between religion and evolutionary biology and the incompatibility between ID and mainstream science.
- Sales Rank: #4272146 in Books
- Published on: 2010-12-31
- Original language: English
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- Binding: Paperback
- 360 pages
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"Law, religion, and science-they all swirl together in debates over the teaching of intelligent design (ID) and evolution. ID advocates insist that public school teachers should be required to teach ID whenever they teach evolution. Frank Ravitch brings his vast knowledge of these debates to bear in Marketing Intelligent Design and leaves the ID argument in tatters. With incisive arguments and historical understanding, Professor Ravitch demonstrates that the ID position is no more than an imaginative marketing campaign that repackages previous attacks on the teaching of evolution. But the substance of the attack is the same, and Ravitch shows why it must fail."
- Stephen M. Feldman
Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct
Professor of Political Science, University of Wyoming
"Marketing Intelligent Design is an interdisciplinary feast. Frank Ravitch adroitly marches through issues of law, evolutionary biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, biblical interpretation, and the tactics associated with the Intelligent Design Movement. The result is an articulate and stinging indictment of Intelligent Design on all fronts. This is an important book."
- Steven H. Shiffrin
Author of The Religious Left and Church-State Relations
Charles Frank Reavis, Sr., Professor of Law Cornell University
About the Author
Professor Frank S. Ravitch is the Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law and Religion at the Michigan State University College of Law. He is most recently the author of Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses (2007) and Law and Religion, A Reader: Cases, Concepts, and Theory, 2nd Edition (2008). He has also published numerous law review articles dealing with law and religion, civil rights law and disability discrimination. Ravitch regularly serves as an expert for print and broadcast media and speaks on topics related to church-state and civil rights law to a wide range of national and local organizations.
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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
irresponsible
By The Professor
It is clear that Lawyer Ravitch does not like those persons who find major problems with orthodox Darwinism, and wants a state enforced censorship of their views in public schools. This book is almost totally a review of the polemics written against critics of Darwinism, and little evidence exists that the author did much, if any, reading of the writings of those he criticizes in his book. He over and over equates Darwin critics' ideas, such as Iirreducible complexity, with astrology, alchemy, the ether theory, UFOlogy, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and even Mad magazine (page 54)!
He argues in his book that Intelligent Design (ID) is religion and, therefore, should not be taught in state supported schools. The fact is, it is now widely taught in American schools. As has been well documented in numerous empirical studies, the problem is not if it is taught, but how it is taught. As has also been documented in numerous studies, if teachers present material in support of ID, they could be terminated, but when teachers present information against it, rarely do problems result. If ID is religion then teachers who teach against it should also be fired as are those who presented scientific information for ID.
The result is schools have become, not places for the objective pursuit of knowledge no matter where it leads, but indoctrination conduits. Ravitch also argues that ID should not be taught because only a few scientists support it, but never mentions the fact that a major reason why few scientists support it is because of the one sided indoctrination, with few exceptions, that exists against ID in our schools. If the evidence for ID was taught objectively, in my experience many scientists would recognize they have some valid points. He argues for theistic evolution in one chapter but gives not one reason to accept the concept of a God and gives much information to reject God. This purports to be a scholarly book, but often descends to gutter language that Amazon will not allow (see page 148 for a mild example).
The only ID concept he mentions is irreducible complexity (IR), which he concludes has been falsified because the examples Behe uses, such as the mouse trap, are not IR because the house mouse trap does not need all of the required parts because they can be used for something else, such as a paper clip (page 29)! Really! In other words, you do not need two up quarks and one down quark to make a proton because an up quark can be used to make another subatomic particle. Nor do humans need a heart to live because a heart can be used as a doorstop. One has to wonder how someone gets through law school with such specious reasoning.
Then again, anyone who has experience with lawyers and courts realizes that lawyers can descend to absurd arguments to win cases, and sometimes it works. One also wonders how he got this book published by Cambridge University Press. He concluded that Darwin Doubters have not been discriminated in Academia, yet it is clear that he is not familiar with the literature in this area, and cited no references to either the relevant court cases, nor the published literature on this topic.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda
By Donald J. Weinshank
Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda
I've battled the Creationism /Intelligent Design folks for many years. Every case in which they have argued that science cannot explain scientific evidence has been overwhelmingly disproved, Worst of all, Intelligent Design is the "answer" to all complex scientific questions, even before they are asked. The I.D. folks would gut science of its stringent application of investigative rules.
I have looked forward for a long time to reading this book by my colleague.
2 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
One of the worst academic books I've ever read.
By Jacob Denhollander
Introduction
Frank Ravitch is the Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law and Religion at the Michigan State University College of Law, and is the author of a number of books and articles on the subject of religion and law. Ravitch is considered an expert on topics related to church-state relations, and has published numerous law review articles dealing with law and religion, civil rights, and disability discrimination. For this reason one would expect his latest book, titled, Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda, to be an educational and well-informed look at the legal issues surrounding the controversy swirling around the topic of Intelligent Design (ID).
Marketing Intelligent Design carries the subtitle, 'Law and the Creationist Agenda.' However, given the fact that only roughly one quarter of the book addresses the interplay between ID and the law, this subtitle is something of a misrepresentation. Ravitch explains that the purpose of the book is to explain "that the essence of ID lies in a solid marketing plan and an attempt to avoid legal constraints, not in promoting a serious scientific alternative to evolutionary biology and biochemistry."1 Thus, rather than an in-depth discussion about the legal aspects of the controversy, which Ravitch would be well-qualified to present, Marketing Intelligent Design is an attempt by someone who considers himself something of an intellectual jack-of-all trades to expose ID for what it really is.
The Good.
This book is most useful in giving a historic overview how the courts have treated the issue of Creationism and ID and the reasoning they have applied to arrive at their conclusions. In the first chapter of his book, Ravitch writes a basic introduction to ID, including a summary of the cases that in part led to the creation of the ID movement. In 1981 the Louisiana State legislature passed "The Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction Act". This law did not require either creation or evolution to be taught - only that if evolution were taught, creation must also be taught. The law was immediately challenged in federal court and by 1987, had reached the Supreme Court in the case of Edwards v. Aguillard. The court ultimately concluded that the law was unconstitutional because it lacked a valid secular purpose. The court rejected the state's argument that the law promoted academic freedom, stating that the purpose of the law was to promote creationism and promote the views of certain Christian denominations.
Edwards was the culmination of an 180 degree turn that began in 1968 when the Supreme Court struck down an Arkansas law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the class room in the case Epperson v. Arkansas. In the span of 20 years, the court progressed from striking down laws banning the teaching of evolution to striking down laws that sought to suggest religiously based alternatives to evolution.
In the chapter titled, "The Law and Intelligent Design", Ravitch addresses some of the legal issues raised by ID. There are three primary questions that arise as the result of different approaches that are argued by ID proponents. First, the question whether or not teaching ID violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Second, whether or not including disclaimers in the front of textbooks regarding evolution violates the Establishment Clause. The third is whether or not allowing teachers to speak about the supposed controversy is permitted.
In the one case that directly addressed ID, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area school district, a federal district court ruled that reading a statement about ID in the classroom, the placement of ID texts in the school library, and the supportive actions of the Dover school board toward ID violated the establishment clause. The fundamental issue in this case was whether ID is religion or science. The court ultimately ruled that ID was a primarily religious, not scientific concept. In fact, the court decided that there was little difference between the creation science that had been rejected in Edwards and ID.
To help the reader understand the holdings of the court in Kitzmiller, Ravitch explains the court's tests to see if a law violates the establishment clause's charge that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of Religion." The incorporation doctrine understand the 14th amendment in such a way that the 1st amendment also applies to state and local governments. Thus, while this was a case of a local school board and not congress, the prohibition of the establishment of religion applied on a local level as well.
There are three tests that the courts use in deciding Establishment clause cases: The three-pronged Lemon test, the Endorsement test, and the coercion test. While the coercion test evolved after the Kitzmiller court handed down its decision, Ravitch explains that the coercion test would be applicable to any future cases; This is because if ID is religious, under current jurisprudence, teaching it in class would lead to dissenting students feeling coerced and thus violate the Establishment clause. The Lemon test, which was utilized by the Kitzmiller court, consists of three prongs: First, the government must have a secular purpose for whatever action it undertakes. Second, the primary effect of the law must neither advance nor inhibit religion. Thirdly, there cannot be an excessive entanglement between government and religion. The other test applied by the Kitsmiller court was the endorsement test, which prohibits the government from endorsing a religion or religious activity in such a way as to reflect on a person's standing in the political community. In short, the government cannot do anything with regard to religion that would cause a person to feel themselves to be an outsider in the larger community.
What is most striking and relevant for persons interested in the interplay between church and state is that ID has been struck down because it has elements that are inherently religious - even though it is not itself a religion. Unfortunately, while Ravitch ably describes the current state of Establishment Clause jurisprudence, there is little to no critical examination of the validity, effectiveness, or philosophical soundness of current jurisprudence.
The Bad and the Ugly.
As has already been indicated, the direct discussion of the legal aspects of ID only makes up roughly one-quarter of the book. The remaining three-quarters are devoted to demonstrating Ravitch's thesis that ID is more of a marketing ploy than a serious scientific alternative to evolution. Unfortunately, there are glaring flaws that surface again and again in this book that undercut any message Ravitch attempts to communicate. They are primarily to be found in the non-legal passages, because the legal passages are, for the most part, engaged in explaining the historical events and reasoning utilized by the courts. This renders them the least noxious sections of the book. Unfortunately, the other sections are so full of logical and scholarly faux pas it is almost embarrassing, and renders the remainder of the book practically useless for any sort of academic work. What follows are a few examples of the un-scholarly characteristics that appear throughout the book.
1. A veritable army of straw-men.
Ravitch rarely engages ID advocates by name. Instead, he most often refers to 'ID advocates'4 or 'ID proponents,'5 and attributes a certain argument or characteristic to them. Unfortunately, when one follows citations to their corresponding endnote, Ravitch is usually summarizing the opinion of a secondary source. Worse yet, there are instances where Ravitch puts a statement in quotations and then cites multiple, entire books. One particularly glaring example of Ravitch's straw-man approach to ID is his claim that ID advocates rely on relativism to advance their claims - yet not once does he cite a relevant primary source to substantiate this claim that is a vital part of his argument. Another example is where Ravitch claims that ID advocates argue that God can be proved in the gaps of evolutionary theory - yet once again, he cannot point to a specific ID advocate that makes this sort of argument.
2. Utter credulity toward ID's opponents.
Another significant flaw that is related to the first is Ravitch's habit of failing to engage ID proponents, choosing instead to dismiss them on the basis that the scientific establishment has utterly discredited them and their arguments. Unfortunately, Ravitch rarely demonstrates or even summarizes how ID proponents have been discredited; he merely asserts that they have been. For instance, speaking about Philip Johnson's book Darwin on Trial, Ravitch confidently writes, "Needless to say, when his book was reviewed by scientists, he lost the case in the court of science and Darwin won the trial ... because Johnson is a law professor and not a scientist." However, this 'review by scientists' that so decisively refutes Johnson turns out to be a three page article written by Stephen J. Gould, who is but one scientist. Yet, for Ravitch, this qualifies as a decisive refutation of Johnson's entire book. This type of overstatement and subsequent dismissal permeates the book.
3. Frustratingly facile reasoning.
Ravitch describes himself as a 'person of faith' and wishes to establish the idea that evolution and faith are not incompatible. Thus, he has included a chapter titled 'Theistic Evolution' in which he seeks to demonstrate that evolution and faith can coexist. Unfortunately, he never gets around to establishing this assertion and gets distracted by arguing against a literal interpretation of Genesis. What is Ravitch's primary argument against a literal interpretation? It is this: Why would God, knowing of our ability to interpret things allegorically or spiritually, give us a book and expect us to read it literally? This is not a passing, throw-away argument - Ravitch spends five pages discussing it, and views it as a compelling argument. Of course, if Ravitch, as an author, has the same awareness of man's ability to interpret, perhaps this is the key to understanding this book. It only seems like a poorly reasoned book if it is read literally.
4. A surprisingly personal, juvenile tone.
Compounding the lack of substance is the petty, condescending, personal, and juvenile tone that permeates the book. Ravitch repeatedly places ID on the same level as believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Raelianism, UFO-ology, Scientology, or Magical gnomes from the planet Zermac. He has a fictional dialogue between a patient and a doctor in which the doctor, supposedly operating on the same principles as ID, suggests that the patient try to cure his ailment with the 'glowing orb hat of Kraplar' and the 'barking noodle of gold.' In what is perhaps the lowest point of the book, Ravitch uses scatological language in a direct address to ID proponents. Since Ravitch does not demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the philosophical and scientific issues surrounding ID, his contemptuous attitude comes across less like an intellectual giant disdaining his inferior opponent, and more like a little boy who hates something merely for the fact that his daddy hates it as well.
Conclusion
There is no doubt that Ravitch is an expert in his field; unfortunately, the passages that actually deal with law and religion make up less than a third of the book, and make no original contributions to understanding the legal aspects of the controversy or Establishment clause issues in general. There are some discussions, such as those regarding the Establishment Clause or the three prongs of the Lemon Test that are so brief that one feels robbed of the further light Ravitch no doubt could have shed on the matters. Of course, when an author writes a book, he must decide to stop somewhere, and if the book were enlightening on other aspects, the brevity of the legal passages might be overlooked. However, the juvenile nature, condescending tone, and inept argumentation of the other sections makes the deficiencies in the legal chapters inexcusable.
Ironically, I agree in part with Ravitch's main thesis - ID is, in large part, a marketing strategy designed to address certain difficulties that arise from our current legal and social constructs. However, Ravitch so effectively avoids engaging the actual arguments of ID advocates that he will have a hard time convincing any but the most credulous that ID is *only* a marketing strategy. I'm not giving this book a poor rating because I disagree with it; I give it a poor rating because it is as inept an attempt to argue a position as I've seen in a long time.
In a further irony, this book does serve a useful role in understanding the interplay between the law and religion. Ravitch demonstrates that even legal experts do not approach a given topic as completely objective observers. While it is rare to see bias so blatantly obvious, it is worth keeping the human element in mind that when formulating strategies and arguments when religion and law come into contact.
In summary, this is a bad book. The only people who should read it are aspiring academic authors. This book will give them hope that no matter how poor their reasoning, no matter how gross their misrepresentations, no matter how bad their writing, and no matter how poorly they employ their sources, there is still a chance that their work will be published by a major and well-respected university press.
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