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''Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins'' is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE). Its authors espouse the pseudoscientific〔National Science Teachers Association, a professional association of 55,000 science teachers and administrators in a 2005 press release: "We stand with the nation's leading scientific organizations and scientists, including Dr. John Marburger, the president's top science advisor, in stating that intelligent design is not science.…It is simply not fair to present pseudoscience to students in the science classroom." (National Science Teachers Association Disappointed About Intelligent Design Comments Made by President Bush ) National Science Teachers Association Press Release August 3, 2005〕 concept of intelligent design—namely that life shows evidence of being designed by an intelligent agent which is not named specifically in the book, although proponents understand that it refers to the Christian God.〔 *"Aquinas was explicit that this intelligent designer 'everyone understands to be God.'", ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'', p24, citing the testimony of John Haught *"anyone familiar with Western religious thought would immediately make the association that the tactically unnamed designer is God", ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'', p25, citing the testimony of John Haught *"Moreover, it is notable that both Professors Behe and Minnich admitted their personal view is that the designer is God and Professor Minnich testified that he understands many leading advocates of ID to believe the designer to be God.", ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District'', p25 *"...although, as one of them (theorists ) confessed to some fellow Christians, referring to an intelligent was merely a 'politically correct way to refer to God." ''The Creationists'', 2006, p380〕 They present various polemical arguments against the scientific theory of evolution. A third edition of the book was proposed, and was published in 2007 under the title ''The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems'' as a sequel. ==Overview== The book argues that the origin of new organisms is "in an immaterial cause: in a blueprint, a plan, a pattern, devised by an intelligent agent". The text remains non-committal on the age of the Earth, commenting that some "take the view that the earth's history can be compressed into a framework of thousands of years, while others adhere to the standard old earth chronology". The book raises a number of objections to the theory of evolution, such as the alleged lack of transitional fossils, gaps in the fossil record and the apparent sudden appearance ''ex nihilo'' of "already intact fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc". The book makes no explicit reference to the identity of the intelligent designer implied in the "blueprint" metaphor. Kevin Padian, a biologist at University of California, Berkeley reviewed the book and called it "a wholesale distortion of modern biology".〔Kevin Padian, "''Of Pandas and People'' Review" in ''Reviews of Creationist Books'' ed Liz Rank Hughes, National Center for Science Education, 1992. page 37 ISBN 978-0-939873-52-4〕 Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy and biology, reviewed it, calling the book "worthless and dishonest".〔Michael Ruse, "''Of Pandas and People'' Review" in ''Reviews of Creationist Books'' ed Liz Rank Hughes, National Center for Science Education, 1992. page 41 ISBN 978-0-939873-52-4〕 Gerald Skoog, Professor of Education at Texas Tech University, wrote in his 1989 review that the book reflected a creationist strategy to focus their "attack on evolution", interpreting the ''Edwards v. Aguillard'' ruling as though it legitimised "teaching a variety of scientific theories", but the book did not contain a scientific theory or model to "balance" against evolution, and was "being used as a vehicle to advance sectarian tenets and not to improve science education". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Of Pandas and People」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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