Recommended Origins Reading List

Mark D. Hartwig
December 2003

Intelligent Design & Critiques of Darwinism

• M. Behe (1996). Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: Free Press.
• Neil Broom (2001). How Blind is the Watchmaker? Nature's Design and the Limits of Naturalistic Science. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• Jon Buell & Virginia Hearn, Eds. (1993). Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?. Richardson, Texas: Foundation for Thought and Ethics.
• Percival Davis & Dean Kenyon. (1993). Of Pandas and People. Dallas: Haughton Publishing.
• William A. Dembski (1999). Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• William A. Dembski. (1998). The Design Inference Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. Cambridge University Press.
• William A. Dembski, Ed. (1998). Mere Creation Science, Faith & Intelligent Design. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• William A. Dembski & James M. Kushiner, Eds. (2001). Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press.
• William A. Dembski. (2002). No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence . New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Michael Denton. (1986). Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. Bethesda, Maryland: Adler and Adler.
• Cornelius G. Hunter (2001). Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press.
• Phillip Johnson. (1991). Darwin on Trial. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• Phillip Johnson. (1995). Reason in the Balance. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• J.P. Moreland, Ed. (1994). The Creation Hypothesis. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• Robert C. Newman & John L. Wiester (2000). What's Darwin Got to Do with It? A Friendly Conversation about Evolution. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.
• Delvin Lee Ratzsch. (2001). Nature, Design, and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
• Jonathan Wells (2000). Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.

History and Philosophy of Science

• Owen Chadwick. (1976). The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
• Adrian Desmond. (1989). The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Adrian Desmond. (1997). Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Adrian Desmond & James Moore. (1992). Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. New York: Warner Books.
• Neal Gillespie. (1979). Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• David Hull. (1983). Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Cornelius G. Hunter. (1976). Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2001.
• Edward J. Larson. (1997). Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books.
• David Lindberg & Ronald Numbers, Eds. (1986). God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• J.P. Moreland (1989). Christianity and the Nature of Science. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House.
• Nancy R. Pearcey & Charles B. Thaxton. (1994). The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
• Michael C. Rea. (2002). World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Thomas Woodard. (2003) Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design. Baker Book House.

Intelligent Design and Education

• John Angus Campbell & Stephen C. Meyer. (2003). Darwinism, Design, and Public Education. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press.
• Francis J. Beckwith. (2003). Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Key Darwinist Books

• Richard Dawkins (1987). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Daniel Dennett (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• James Rachels (1990). Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Carl Sagan. (1995). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Random House.

Reference

• Wendell Bird. (1989). The Origin of Species Revisited: The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance. (In two volumes.) New York: Philosophical Library.

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