John Brockman, editor of Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement (just published by Vintage), says in his online introduction to the new anthology that "the Visigoths are at the gates." Well, I know Bill Dembski has a German background, as I do, so arguably we're "Goths" in that ethnic sense.
On the other hand, my teenage daughters actually know some Goths -- black eyeliner and all that -- and they'd never accept that their old man could possibly be described by the adjective "goth." Furthermore, I once heard Dembski play a Chopin étude from memory in a guest house in Corona del Mar. Would a Visigoth do that?
And Mike Behe is Irish (by descent).
Anyway -- Intelligent Thought, with sixteen chapters, from contributors such as Dennett, Dawkins, Kauffman, Smolin, Shubin, and others, looks like it would make a great college textbook, for discussing the controversy that doesn't exist.
