A second helping of doubt.

A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied: Here Is Debating Darwin's Doubt

David Klinghoffer July 21, 2015 12:01

Today marks the anniversary of the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial, decided this day, July 21, 90 years ago in Dayton, Tennessee, in favor of the prosecution. A public high school teacher, John Scopes, was convicted and fined $100 for teaching in favor of Darwinian evolution in violation of what was state law at the time.

While that's nearly a century past, defenders of Darwinian theory still present the conflict between unguided evolution and intelligent design as if it had not advanced a bit since Clarence Darrow jousted with William Jennings Bryan over Biblical literalism that summer before a courthouse crowd in 1925.

The truth is very different. To commemorate the Scopes Trial, Discovery Institute Press today releases Debating Darwin's Doubt: A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied, a sequel to Stephen Meyer's 2013New York Times bestseller, Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design.

For a limited time, you can get Debating Darwin's Doubt at 35 percent off the cover price by going here and entering the discount code 4DXTSYJU. It's also available now for Kindle and Nook, and from Barnes & Noble.

In a way, my Discovery Institute colleagues and I took a leaf from Hollywood, where no box office blockbuster is complete without a sequel. Dr. Meyer's milestone case for intelligent design kicked up a storm of controversy, and we realized that we couldn't let the matter rest there. Meyer's book must have a sequel, and that's what we are launching. I had the honor of editing the new book, and I can say it is important for three reasons.

First, it is a sequel. Gathering material from Evolution News & Views, the daily online voice of the intelligent design movement that I also edit, Debating Darwin's Doubt documents the intense scientific arguments sparked by Meyer's book. Top ID scholars respond to Meyer's most challenging critics, from sources ranging from The New Yorker and National Review up to America's most prestigious journal of scientific research, Science.

Among the book's 44 chapters are 10 by Meyer, includy