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Over at The Panda's Thumb they're taking apart Jonathan Wells' astoundingly dishonest The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design. As they say:

Jonathan Wells is one of the most notorious activists of the political ad campaign known as “intelligent design”. He is most well known for his attacks on modern biology, specifically his 2000 book, Icons of Evolution, which was panned by the scientific community for its fraudulent presentation of modern biology.

Does Jonathan Wells, aiming once again at the popular market, restore his scientific and academic reputation with his latest book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, or is it just old trash in a new bag? To find out, you will need to read our multi-part review, which begins tomorrow.

One thing is for sure, Jonathan Wells is too modest. His recently published, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, is not only politically incorrect but incorrect in most other ways as well: scientifically, logically, historically, legally, academically, and morally.

Various experts are dismantling this book chapter by chapter. This is one of the advantages the IDer's have: any liar can gallop through a diatribe of unethical assertions, mined and mis-quotes, logical fallacies, and outright lies. It's hard to go through and tackle each sentence.

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it - and for once, that's a serious statement. I'm grateful to the guys at PT for being willing to wade through the muck.