Critique of Intelligent Design : Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The wedge strategy. 3. Epicurus\'s Swerve. 4. Enlightenment materialism and natural theology. 5. Marx\'s critique of heaven and critique of earth. 6. On the origin of Darwinism. 7. Freud and the illusions of religion. 8. In defense of natural science. 9. Replaying the tape of life. 10. The end of the wedge. Notes. Index.

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