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Evan Staehle emstaehle — This is certainly the best analysis of ID -- and of Creationism in general -- that I've come across. Shanks has actually, as an evolutionary biologist teaching at East Tennessee State University, fought in the front lines against Creationist claptrap -- you can find his very funny essay about these experiences, "Fighting for Our Sanity in Tennessee", by googling. He brings some of that battle-hardenedness to this far more sombre work; although there could hardly help but be a few moments worth chuckling over, his intent here is deadly serious. He also manages to explain the principles of ID more clearly than any IDer I've read! I'd shyly suggest this is a very important book, and, if you care at all about trying to push back against those forces who'd like to see us enter another Dark Age of ignorance and deprivation, one you should put on your reading list.

Olawale Daniel coolcash4l10e2 — In a sense this is two books: one describing the historical background of evangelicalism and emerging fundamentalism in 19th and early 20th century America, with a special focus on the habits of the mind and intellectual culture that distinguished American evangelicalism in this period, and another outlining the "scandal of the evangelical mind" in the 20th century and speculating on the future of the evangelical mind. In both portions of the book Noll's approach is more of a synthetic one which brings together current work on evangelical intellectual history - rather skillfully - rather one based more on his own archival research or textual analysis. Noll is very good at this sort of synthetic work, but I would have liked to see more of his own thoughts and research on this topic. He also runs through huge periods of history very quickly - in or or two chapters - and could stand to take a bit more time with this material. All in all I thought the book was well done but would have liked it to be a good deal longer and more in-depth. Noll also seems at points to fall into the same tendency which he rightly describes as having seriously hobbled the evangelical mind: he sets up a false dichotomy between "secular" and "Christian" intellectual thought and institutions and reproduces an "us vs. them" narrative in his discussions of the relationship between evangelical Christians and the "secular" academy. His characterization of the uses of science in the "secular academy" to support "grand cosmic claims" about the nature of the universe, etc., seems particularly flawed, inaccurate, and exaggerated. He seems to imply that all scientists subscribe to the Dawkins' school of thought in which science has all but proven the absence of any deity or purpose in the universe. This characterization is an unfortunate caricature of the mainstream scientific community (and an all too common one in evangelical cultures). Finally, while Noll's passion for the renewing of the evangelical mind is infectious, his vision for how such a renewal would take place and what it would entail is less inspiring. A generic appeal to the long Christian tradition of learning about God through the "two books" - the book of scripture and the book of nature - will not suffice to renew the evangelical mind, beset by ahistoricism. Further, a vision that pits Christian intellectual inquiry against secular intellectual inquiry will only exacerbate the persecution complex that so hampers serious evangelical thought. "Scandal" is not a cheerful book - it doesn't fill one with hope about the current state of evangelical thought. The saddest part about reading is that so little has changed in the 14 years since Noll first wrote it - if any thing the state of the evangelical mind has only further declined.