Barbara Forrest
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Barbara Carroll Forrest, PhD. is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She has been an outspoken critic of intelligent Design, and the Discovery Institute.
Biography
Forrest was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy at Tulane University in 1988. She has taught philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University since 1981 and presently holds the rank of professor in philosophy in the Department of History and Political Science.She is co-author with scientist Paul R. Gross of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press 2004), which examines the goals and strategies of the intelligent design movement and its attempts to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology. Analyzed is the absence of a scientific intelligent design hypothesis, ID's religious foundations, and the political ambitions of intelligent design proponents. They examine the movement's Wedge strategy which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. Analyzing the content and character of intelligent design creationism they highlight its relationship to public education and to the separation of church and state.
Forrest serves on the board of directors of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association.
External links
- [Official site of Creationism's Trojan Horse]
- [The Newest Evolution of Creationism Intelligent design is about politics and religion, not science.] by Barbara Forrest. From Natural History magazine, April, 2002, page 80.
- [Collected works] at Internet Infidels
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