Further Readings
Behe, M. Darwin's Black Box. New York: The Free Press, 1996. A creationist recounts the arguments for intelligent design from the point of view of molecular biology. Few biologists accept these views, but it is important that they be heard and considered. Blackburn, D. G. "Paleontology Meets the Creationist Challenge." Creation/Evolution 36 (July 1995):30-31 (back issues available from National Center for Science Education/NCSE at ncseweb.org/). Dawkins, R. The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. A brilliant exposition of the factors involved in evolution by natural selection, focusing on the arguments for intelligent design. Futuyma, D. Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, Second Edition. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1995. This book provides an introduction to the controversy surrounding evolution. Landau, M. "Whales: Can Evolution Account for Them?" Creation/Evolution, Fall 1982, 14-19. (back issues available from National Center for Science Education/NCSE at ncseweb.org/) Lemonik, M. "A Terrible Beauty." Time, December 12, 1994, 64-70. By selecting for showring looks, animal breeders are crippling America's purebred dogs.		Miller, K. Finding Darwin's God. New York: Cliff Street Books, 2000. Miller has written this book to try and reconcile religion with the theory of evolution by showing that the two do not have to be mutually exclusive. National Academy of Sciences. Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. The National Academy of Sciences outlines its support for evolution in this publication. Pennock, R. Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pennock examines the "intelligent-design theory" and its antievolution arguments. Webb, G. The Evolution Controversy in America. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. A recent update on the ongoing battle between creationists and evolutionists. Weiner, J. The Beak of the Finch: Evolution in Real Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. A highly recommended account of ongoing studies of evolution in action among Darwin's Galápagos finches. Weiner, J. "Evolution Made Visible." Science 267 (January 1995):30-33. Evolution within natural populations is the subject of current research reviewed here by the author of The Beak of the Finch.
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