The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought

When reviewing The Evolution Wars by the same editor (Ruse, 2000) (RR 2001/163) I mentioned my surprise at finding that Darwin's ideas were still part of the Controversies in Science series, but in fact, according to the chapter on Creationism here, over 40 percent of polled Americans disbelieve in evolution. Flat-earthers have more or less disappeared, but the creationists still cling ever more desperately to their Mosaic ideal, in the face of ever-increasing accumulation of scientific evidence. There have been encyclopedic attempts at Arguing for Evolution (Cotner and Moore, 2011) (RR 2012/121). We have...