Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design , by Francis J. Beckwith (Rowman & Littlefield, 224 pp., $24.95)
As long ago as 1941, in his still-classic Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage , Jacques Barzun wrote of the Darwinian controversy that it is "a major incident . . . in the dispute between the believers in consciousness and the believers in mechanical action; the believers in purpose and the believers in ...