From Publishers Weekly
Brockman has assembled sixteen short essays by prominent scientists on current thinking about evolution. A few of the contributors argue that ID is a political or ideological movement without scientific legitimacy. These arguments are concise and persuasive, if sometimes familiar; strong evidence and wide acceptance in the scientific community have made evolution central to biology and related branches. The most fresh and interesting essays essentially ignore ID to explore aspects of evolutionary biology, including paleontologist Tim D. White considering evidence for Homo sapiens' evolution, psychologist Steven Pinker on the compatibility of evolution and ethics, and geologist Scott D. Sampson proposing primary science education that links evolution and ecology.

I considered the topics and directions of the variou essays after a while too repetitive. After reading an argument the tenth time it gets boring. I think, however, that the book has helped me formulating my own arguments against ID so I now know what to say when defending evolution to religious peasants.