Why Darwin Matters: The Case for Evolution and Against Intelligent Design

In
Why Darwin Matters, Michael Shermer, the best-selling author of
Why People Believe Weird Things, the publisher of
Skeptic magazine, and a monthly columnist for
Scientific American, decodes the facts of evolution and shows how natural selection achieves the elegant design of life.

Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents invoke a combination of ad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology in their new brand of creationism. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. Why Darwin Matters is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.