Marketing Intelligent Design - Law and the Creationist Agenda

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book presents an argument that intelligent design is a well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse. Zusammenfassung This book presents a philosophical and legal argument that intelligent design (ID) does not meet the standards of scientific rigor and functions only as a well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Designing design; 2. Big d and manufactured paradigm shifts; 3. The law and intelligent design; 4. Theistic evolution; 5. Dawkins' dilemma; 6. No intelligence allowed or no intelligible science?; 7. The Madison Avenue approach to law and science.

Product details

• Authors: Frank S. Ravitch, Frank S. (Michigan State University) Ravitch, Ravitch Frank S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521191531
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19153-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Religion and science, Religion & science, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law