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Darwin's Black Box. By Michael Behe. New York: The Free Press1996. Pp. 307. $25.00. ISBN: 0-684-82754-9. Paper. $14.00. ISBN: 0-684-83493-6. - The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities. By William A. Dembski. New York: Cambridge University Press1998. Pp. xvii, 243. $64.95. ISBN: 0-521-62387-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Francis J. Beckwith
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 921 - 929
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2001

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References

1. (Behe, 39.)

2. For a response to these critiques as well as a fine-tuning of Behe's case, see Dembski, William A., No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence §§ 5.5, 5.6, 5.9 (Rowman & Littlefield 2001)Google Scholar; Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design (Dembski, William A. & Kushiner, James M. eds., Brazos Press 2001)Google Scholar.

3. Behe, Michael, Intelligent Design as an Alternative Explanation for the Existence of Biochemical Machines, in 1.4 Rhetoric & Pub. Affairs 569 (1998)Google Scholar.

4. Dembski, William A., Reinstating Design Within Science, 1.4Rhetoric & Pub. Affairs 506 (1998)Google Scholar.

5. Id. at 506.

6. Id. at 508.

7. Id. at 507-509.

8. Id. at 509.

9 Id. at 510.

10. 118 U.S. 356 (1886),

11. Gunther, Gerald & Sullivan, Kathleen M., Constitutional Law 750 (13th ed. 1997)Google Scholar.

12. 482 U.S. 578 (1987).

13. 289 S.W. 363 (Tenn. 1927). See Larson, Edward J., Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Basic Books 1997)Google Scholar, reviewed in this issue of the Journal.

14. 393 U.S. 97 (1968).

15. 529 F. Supp. 1255 (1982), aff'd, 723 F. 2d 45 (8th Cir. 1983).

16. Aguillard, 482 U.S. at 587.

17. See Wexler, Jay D., Of Pandas, People, and the First Amendment: The Constitutionality of Teaching Intelligent Design in the Public Schools, 49 Stan. L. Rev. 439, 465 (1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

18. Aguillard, 482 U.S. at 605 (Powell, J., concurring) (quoting, in part, Harris v. Mcrae, 448 U.S. 297, 319 (1980)).

19. See Sch. Dist. of Abington Township v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 225 (1963) (quoting Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306, 314 (1952)) (“[T]he State may not establish a 'religion of secularism' … thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.”), Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488, 495 n. 11 (1961) (“Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.”).

20. 482 U.S. at 593.

21. Id. at 594.

22. Id. at 587.

23. Id.