Chris Mooney reviewed the book for his CSICOP column and used it to compare ID creationism with young Earth creationism.[12] Biologist Bruce Grant described the authors as "heroes", saying their work was "the most thorough introduction to that enemy [intelligent design creationism]".[13]
The main subject of the book, the Discovery Institute, was highly critical of Creationism's Trojan Horse. Jonathan Witt of the Discovery Institute wrote a review in the theology journal Philosophia Christi published by the Evangelical Philosophical Society and said that it had "erroneous reasoning" and that "on every page of the book, there is a tone of paranoia."[14]
Witt and John G. West of the Discovery Institute also had an article published in the November 2004 edition of Science & Theology News entitled "Unraveling The Threads of Darwinist Paranoia".[15] A month later, Forrest and Gross wrote in Science & Theology News, with a reply by Witt and West.[16]Ian Musgrave contributed a letter to the editor in the February 2005 edition replying to West and Witt's reply.[17]
During the trial, pre-publication drafts of the textbook at the center of the controversy Of Pandas and People were uncovered which revealed its creationist origins and how it had changed from using creationist terminology to using intelligent design terminology as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Edwards v. Aguillard. This formed an important part of Forrest's testimony.[21]
A few days before Forrest's testimony, the Discovery Institute published its own "brief history of the scientific theory of intelligent design" by Jonathan Witt, in which he attempts to diminish the importance of Edwards v. Aguillard, claiming instead that the origin of intelligent design was much older.[22]
Editions
Hardcover: 416 pages, Publisher: Oxford University Press, United States (2004) ISBN978-0-19-515742-0
Paperback: 416 pages, Publisher: Oxford University Press, United States (2007) ISBN978-0-19-531973-6
References
^Forrest, Barbara; Gross, Paul R. (2007). Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. ISBN978-0-19-515742-0.