About the Book and Its Authors... |
The Evolution Controversy was written to fill a need in the ongoing debates about evolution: the need for an objective, impartial presentation of the relevant facts, history, schools of thought, points in dispute, and public policy issues. Its goal is to explain the major issues and positions honestly, clearly, and in a non-tendentious manner, so as to create well-informed readers. Its intended audience comprises those who wish to learn more about the controversy--what is at stake, what the issues are--but who have not made up their minds and who would like an introduction to the subject that they can trust, one that is not trying to proselytize them. The book can be read on its own, or used as a supplement in biology, general science, law, political science, philosophy and theology classes. It can also be used by homeschooling families. The Evolution Controversy should be accessible to the undergraduate or college-educated reader who has taken a course or two in biology and chemistry. Most of it will be accessible to those with a good high-school education, especially if they are willing to look up subjects and terms with which they may not be familiar. For convenience of the reader, the book is divided into three parts: Backgound, Analysis of the major schools of thought about evolution, and Outlook. It features numerous diagrams and comparison charts to enable the reader to quickly grasp the essentials of the controversy. The authors' collective expertise covers all areas of study relevant to the evolution controversy: biology, biochemistry, physics, system theory, mathematics, logic, philosophy of science, and history. The authors maintain their objectivity quite scrupulously (though no book will ever be regarded as completely objective by all partisans in the evolution debates!). Neither of the authors belongs to any of the schools discussed, and neither is on the payroll of any school or its sponsors, or indebted to any school in any way.
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Thomas B. Fowler (ScD, George Washington University) is Senior Principal Engineer at the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications at Noblis, formerly known as Mitretek Systems, a not-for-profit consulting firm working in the public interest in Falls Church, Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Christendom College. He has published over one hundred articles and reviews, and has translated two books. He is a member of several honorary fraternities including Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and is a member of major scientific organizations including AAAS, IEEE, American Physical Society, and American Mathematical Society. |
Daniel Kuebler (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is assistant professor of biology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. He has written a number of articles for scientific journals as well as for the National Catholic Register. |
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