— Par dS RY OF eC APITALISM 1500-2000 new edition = _ = —aN \ MICHEL BEAUD ey ythe model on which all discussions of intelligent design should be based. —RICHARD LEWONTIN, co-author of The Dialectical Biologist Critique of Intelligent Design Materialism versus Creationism From Antiquity to the Present * John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York$15.95 SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY / CURRENT EVENTS This is an excellent book. It adds to the growing body of critical writing about intelligent design creationism. —BARBARA FORREST, a key witness on the side of evolution in the landmark Dover, PA trial; professor of philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University; co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (with Paul R. Gross) «a vigorous defense of a materialist view of nature that rejects the tepid compromise that would simply divide the turf into domains of science and religion. —RICHARD LEVINS, John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard University; co-author of Biology Under the Influence (Monthly Review Press) and The Dialectical Biologist (both with Richard Lewontin) - a fascinating history of the long struggle between scientific and materialist thought on the one hand and religion and various forms of idealism on the other—probably the most significant issues over which humans have been arguing throughout their recorded history. JEAN BRICMONT, professor of theoretical physics, University of Louvain, Belgium; co-author of Fashionable Nonsense (with Alan Sokal) and author of Humanitarian Imperialism (Monthly Review Press) Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to understanding the forces of irrationalism challenging the teaching of evolution in the United States and seeking to undermine the natural and social sciences, This book offers empowering tools fo understand and defend critical and scientific reasoning in both the natural and social sciences and society as a whole. JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER is the author of Naked Imperialism, Marx’s Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet (all by Monthly Review Press), editor of Monthly Review, and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. BRETT CLARK is assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. RICHARD YORK is associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coeditor of the journal Organization & Environment. MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS ISBN-13: 978-1-58967-173-3 ISBN 38367-1730 146 West 2oth Street, Suite 6W New York, New York 10001 www.monthlyreview.org, | | | | | | | 9"781583'671733 COVER DESIGN: Ben Smyth, Grand Opening th A) wengewang.org